The Following Is A Passage From Nietzsche's The Gay Science
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“Writings” from the book Exploring Philosophy. Author Steven M Cahn
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The following is a passage from Nietzsche's The Gay Science.
“The heaviest burden: “What, if some day or night, a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life, as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh… must return to you—all in the same succession and sequence—even this spider and this moonlight between the trees and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned over again and again—and you with it, speck of dust!’ Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: ‘You are a god, and never have I heard anything more divine!’ If this thought were to gain possession of you, it would change you as you are, or perhaps crush you. The question in each and every thing, “do you want this once more and innumerable times more?” would lie upon your actions as the greatest weight. Or how well disposed would you have to become to yourself and to life to crave nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal?”
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In The work The Velveteen Rabbit, the writer presents a narration, whereby the lead character is the velveteen rabbit, while other characters include like the skin horse, Timothy (the wooden lion) and the Nana. The velveteen rabbit is described as a fat, bouncy rabbit with spot brown and white body CITATION Marnd \l 1033 (Ockerbloom, n.d.). The writer states that the rabbit always stood out of the rest in terms of the body appearance, for instance, the author states that velveteen rabbit was the best of the existing stocking nuts, oranges, and the chocolate almonds but which we, later on, find out that they do not comprise of what Real is.
After the velveteen rabbit posed the question of what is REAL? To the Skin Horse, the latter responded that it is not the manner/ how one is made of. Instead, the horse replied that it is what happens to someone, for instance being loved by a child for quite a long time without being played by the child, is what constitutes Real CITATION Marnd \l 1033 (Ockerbloom, n.d.). Further Skin Horse replied that Real Hurts and the conversation between the two continue. In my personal thoughts, I strongly agree with the views and response of Skin Horse that Real is not all about how one is made but of what happens to them from other people. In other words, the Skin Horse implies that Real is about character and not just physical appearance. Other aspects which describe real include like truthfulness, getting hurt among others. However, it is important to also note that Real is also about the true character and reciprocated character to an individual. It doesn’t involve...
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