Nietzsche
by Alex Andy Phuong
As
people began to employ reason and logic rather
than simply rely on emotional and romantic
sensibilities, some of them began to question the
nature of reality itself. In fact, as
Nietzsche attempted to understand the nature of
reality, he dared to ask what exactly the idea of
truth really means within his influential text The
Birth of Tragedy. In a time when
psychology began to develop, people yearned to
explain the world around them scientifically
rather than by merely relying on sensational
elements. Additionally, these people
employed reason rather than emotion in order to
understand themselves, the world around them, and
what defines reality. In Nietzsche’s The
Birth of Tragedy, he arrived at the
conclusion that truth is merely a superficial
thought about reality simply because of the
subjective nature of reality itself.
As
the world transitioned from Romanticism to
Realism, people like Nietzsche began to wonder
about what really is true in the world.
Poets from the romantic era, like Wordsworth,
might have used elaborate metaphors to describe
nature. As history changed, though,
Nietzsche’s ideas beg to ask the question of
what really does exist in the world. There
is also the belief that nothing exists at all,
and that everything that happens in life is
merely an illusion. Thus, people can only
understand so much about themselves and the world
around them because there is, perhaps, nothing
that really is true. Instead, everything
that happens in life could all simply be a
projection of reality rather than a solid truth.
Therefore, people might gloat about innovations
that they made throughout history, but they are
all still fundamentally human with a limited
understanding of everything, including possibly
themselves.
In other words…some people do not know ****.
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