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Nietzsche's Madness: Thinking Through Darkness and Light Nietzsche's Madness -- Kent D. Palmer philosophy of Being1, Existence2 and 3 Manifestation . We will see that Nietzsche's end from that perspective has some meaning NIETZSCHE'S beyond the mere fact of insanity and the diagnosis related to syphilis. Nietzsche's MADNESS madness is a key aspect of his philosophy that builds toward that madness. We see it Thinking through Darkness and especially in his Genealogy of Morals where he refers several times to hidden diseases and Light syphilis in particular. Many of us have had the experience of lucidity just prior to the Kent D. Palmer, Ph.D. onset of an illness. We might see Nietzsche's philosophical production as just such a P.O. Box 1632 lucidity prior to the darkness and obscurity Orange CA 92856 USA of his thought in madness. What that lucidity 714-633-9508 brought to light is something very similar to [email protected] what we call the Special Systems theory which illuminates his journey toward Copyright 2000 K.D. Palmer. madness and also illuminates the roots of the All Rights Reserved. Not for distribution. Western Worldview. Started 2000/12/20/ Version 0.23; 2001/06/04; nm00v23.doc Our view of Nietzsche's madness is that it is Registration 2002/05/07 TXu-046-306 the end product of his philosophy, i.e. the natural conclusion of a path that he had set himself on from the moment of his break with Wagner. In his madness we see Keywords: interdependent co-arising of the stages of his journey into madness and the major features Nietzsche, Madness, Special Systems, of his philosophy. Nietzsche's madness and Holonomics. 1 Arabic "Kun" technical word for Being which does Summary: not exist in the Arabic language used in the translation of Greek philosophical texts. In Old An attempted thoughtful approach to English the concept of "Being" is fragmented among Nietzsche's madness. several roots with even parallel conjugations in some cases. See "Primal Ontology and Archaic Existentiality" which is the first essay in this series Introduction by the author. 2 Arabic "Wajud" which is Existence in Arabic. The Nietzsche went mad in the end. What is the Word Existence was created to translate this term philosophical significance of his fate? Are when Arabic philosophical texts were translated from Arabic into Latin. There was not equivalent term in our ends and our philosophies intertwined? the Indo-European languages. There is no word for Here we will explore the roots of Nietzsche's existence in Old English. madness finding perhaps some unexpected 3 Arabic "Tajalliat" means the manifestation of the meaning in it that might otherwise be missed. attributes of God. This is a technical term in Islamic Sufism for the manifestation of God's attributes Our approach to Nietzsche's madness will be through the creation. Manifestation is the closest in terms of an interpretation of his English word to this idea. The Old English word philosophy in terms of the author's own aetiewanes or otheowanes might be used which means to appear, disclose, manifest, reveal. 1 Nietzsche's Madness -- Kent D. Palmer his philosophy are of a piece, they are part of Unfounded Opinion = Appearance the same story, the same structure organizes ++++++++++++ Limit both the structure of the philosophy and the endpoint in madness as well. And it is our The divided line places a limit on reason and contention that this progress into madness appearances. That limit is the perimeter tells us something deep about the Western within which we are safe from madness. Worldview as well because it highlights the Beyond the limit all bets are off. It turns out undergirding of Being by Existence and their that we do not approach the limits of reason exposure of manifestation. and opinion continuously but that those limits show us a series of discontinuities that are associated with the Special Systems. Probing the limits of the Divided Line Here we will talk about the approach of the with Nietzsche and Kierkegaard limits based on the special system prior to explaining exactly what the special systems We begin with Plato's divided line. The are. Suffice it to say that between a System divided line makes the fundamental and a Meta-system there are three discrete distinction in our tradition between reason steps that are associated with special systems (ratio) and opinion (doxa). Within opinion with unusual qualities. When we move there is faith and unfounded opinion on the toward the limit on each side of the divided one side and representable intelligibles and line we encounter different versions of these non-representable intelligibles on the other quantal jumps on each end. hand. The divided line gives us our bearings within ourselves and establishes the primary distinctions by which we navigate experience. However, it does not appear that anyone has questioned the nature of the divisions of the divided line itself. What is the nature of the three cuts in the divided line between the various images of ratio and doxa. Our own opinion of that is that the division between faith and unfounded opinion distinguishes external existence. And the division between representable and non- representable intelligibles distinguishes internal existence. The major distinction between ratio and doxa themselves distinguishes manifestation from existence. The compartments of the divided line refer to Being, the minor division refer to existence and the major divisions refer to Manifestation. ++++++++++++ Limit Unrepresentable intelligibles = like The Good --------------------- Internal Existence Representable intelligibles = Hypothesis ============ Manifestation Founded Opinion = Faith --------------------- External Existence 2 Nietzsche's Madness -- Kent D. Palmer Meta2- Extremal Extremal Meta-system Madness Uberman system Limit Limit (extrema) (extrema) Nature Overcoming of affirms all values, Meta- Supra- Madness Nature Overcoming system rationality (Schizophreni Man a and Autism) Reflexive Absurd Perspectivism special Reflexive Mutual Absurdity system Nature Social Grounding of Delights relations the Kinds of Nature between Being instincts Autopoiet Self- Viscous Autopoietic Viscious Eternal Return ic grounding of Circles Special circle the Monolith System Test of action - Nature - would you Dissipativ Seeking Paradox, i.e. Produces will it forever e Ground in the contradictory Nature face of opinions ground- Dissipative Paradox Will to Power lessness Special System Nature Will of thing- System Giving Giving Conquers in-itself toward ground as Opinion as Nature affirmation of rationality doxa life System Doxa Man The point that we want to make is that Nature Complex of Nietzsche's philosophy has interesting negates values, wills, similarities to the end of the divided line that Nature instincts is associated with Madness. If we were to overlay Nietzsche's key ideas onto that end of the line approaching its limit then we would get the following configuration. Here we have thesis that we would like to explore in a nutshell. Each of the major ideas of Nietzsche's philosophy can be seen as images of the special systems from the vantage point of the limit of doxa and as such they naturally culminate in madness, i.e. the total disintegration of the personality toward which Nietzsche was headed. But the point here is that Nietzsche's embodiment of this development is a tribute to how deeply he has explored the roots of the Western Worldview. His madness and the discrete ideational steps he was making toward that 3 Nietzsche's Madness -- Kent D. Palmer endpoint revealed an image of the special Philosophical Implications of Special systems which is rare and interesting. The Systems Theory only other philosopher who seems to understand this entire range of phenomena is Special Systems Theory is an extension of Kierkegaard. This gives an inner connection General Systems Theory and what is called between the thought of Kierkegaard and General Meta-systems Theory. We consider Nietzsche which is unexpected and Systems to be Social Gestalts. Thus Meta- interesting. For Kiekegaard the articulation systems are Social Proto-gestalts. The of the special systems is expressed very Special Systems are an odd combination of differently. We can see it as the levels of Gestalts and Proto-gestalts, or Systems and Kiekegaard's concept of hypothetical Meta-systems. religious experience. A system is a way of looking at things that absurdity sees their emergent properties and produces a Transcendental Religion whole. However, there are other kinds of paradox wholes than those with emergent properties. Immanent Religion There are wholes taken apart, i.e. de- humor emergent wholes, that are less-than-the-sum- Ethics of-their-parts rather than greater-than-the- irony sum-of-their-parts. We think of these de- Aesthetics emergent wholes as fields. Gestalts are daemonic figure-ground conglomerations on a background of their proto-gestalts. In other words the figure-ground becomes a new We can see Nietzsche as inhabiting and figure on a deeper ground. When we look at attempting to justify the aesthetic end of that deeper ground we see the field out of Kiekegaard's spectrum. Nietzsche tend to which the system arises and to which it oscillate between irony cutting cultural returns, that is the environment, ecosystem, critique and sarcasm and the daemonic with milieu, situation, context, etc of the system. his wild claims. He has his focus on Values, i.e the substance of morality and ethics. He Once the distinction between a system and a considers everything beyond Ethics to be meta-system (gestalt and proto-gestalt) is merely made up illusions and especially the understood, then a Special System is seen as illusions of the Ascetic Priest which he an emergent level of differentiation between contrasts to the Warrior who is rooted in his the system and the meta-system (between the body here and now with conquest on his gestalt and the proto-gestalt).
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