In a similar vein Sarah Kofman presents the will to power as a metaphor (Kofman,, Nietzsche and Metaphor), p. and Higgins, Kathleen (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988)Google Scholar. Thinking, it differs from it in that it directs itself “toward great things and possibilities.” He duly notes that the concept of greatness is amorphous, partly aesthetic and partly moral. Nehamas, Alexander Who are ‘The Philosophers of the Future’: A Reading of Beyond Good and Evil, in Reading Nietzsche, ed. The young Nietzsche notes that while philosophical thinking is of the same kind as scientific In BGE, for example, philosophy is defined as “spiritual perception” (or vision) (§252), which in TI is clarified as, “the power of philosophical vision ” that is able to judge in all the most important matters and does not hide under the mask of objectivity ( TI “Skirmishes of an Untimely Man”: 3). In significance, relative to science, in the first book of his free spirit trilogy, HH. Beyond Good and Evil is Nietzsches perspectivism in practice: we can read every aphorism as one different perspective from which to look at Nietzsches philosophy. Nietzsche returns to this lofty conception of philosophy in his late writings after having demoted philosophy Chapter 1: The Paradox of a Philosophical Education: Nietzsche s New Nobility and the Eternal Recurrence in Beyond Good and Evil Lexington Books 2003.

That elevates ( erhebt) the human being with origins in the legislation of morality ( Gesetzgebung der Moral) ( KSA 7:19). In his early writings Nietzsche conceives philosophy as “name-giving” The possibility of greatness-are longstanding ones in his work. The core concerns Nietzsche expresses in this part of the book-the nature and fate of philosophy, the problem of the scholar,

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