The Gay Science,by Friedrich Nietzsche :: The Gay Science, Friedrich Nietzsche

1) Nietzsche could have written The Gay Science differently. What justifies the style of composition he chose? More importantly, is his style of writing effective? What relation do you see between the style of his writing and the content of thought it expresses? Nietzsches style of writing was a deliberate stylistic choice meant to hide the meaning of his oeuvre and philosophy from those who would not be able to understand it, and finished there misunderstanding would abuse it. This writing style was also meant to help support and split up meaning to Nietzsches arguments on the nature of terminology and how row is, at its root a metaphor describing an object that is disconnected from us. Nietzsches work broke down language to its metaphorical roots and explored the nature of how our language is disconnected from the objective reality around us. Nietzsche uses the metaphorical roots of our language to show that words and language our basically disconnected because of the su bjective nature of language. Nietzsche shows these metaphorical roots by showing how simple words and phrases that we use in our everyday life be sincerely disconnected or at least removed by the barrier of language. Language is a serious of metaphors all describing how an object subjectively appears to the individual. No language can describe what it is like to be that object, nor properly describe what it is that makes the object what it is. All language can do is provide a vehicle through which reality can communicate what he is subjectively experiencing and relate it via a metaphor to another individual who will only get a radical of what is being described rather than an actual concrete description.2) In sections 124, 343, and 377, Nietzsche claims that, following the death of God, human beings find themselves in the horizon of the infinite, on the open sea, and homeless. What are the consequences of the death of God? With reference to section 347, discuss the ambiguity of this new found freedom. How might it terrify some people and empower others? The consequences for the death of paragon are far reaching and and many in Nietzsches work. Christianity sparked the death of God as most of us know him through the actions of Martin Luther. Luthers desire to give the harsh man the ability to understand and read the bible brought a end to the churches monopoly on morality and brought the divine to the common man making the common man divine.