How much heat is too much is the question. "Some like it hot..."

It's not just Nietzsche. The Germans are often profound.

Kant was. So was Leibniz. (Carnap, Wittgenstein, Schlick, Feigl).

And obtuse; and immoral???Why those people should be so rational and so ignorant of the emotions is an enduring question... Such people are capable of greatness, and heartless cruelty...

Kant? Leibniz? Schlick? What are you talking about?

I am reading Schopenhaur now, and he takes the experiance of his readers in the language of philosophy for granted...I think he is making something simple very complex, and perhaps because that was his object...Same with Kant...I'd rather read the phone book... And what about Nietzsche???Compared to him at times a toilet wall is a better read, and less disturbed... All the appeals to Eastern Religion, or Western tradition does not get if for me...Galileo, though older, and an amature writer gave a better expression to his philosophy than they...I like Leibniz in his explanation of basic logic, yet his Theodicy is only recycled faith pretending to be philosophy...

All this is perhaps a prejudice on my part to formal philsophers...The idea that an original mind is improved by any formal education is wrong... The creative mind is given certain tools that if used as intended by the giver always end at the same conclusion...That does not mean that people should not learn everything, or should neglect a formal education...It is just that everyone should learn that a formal education teaches the form...

Something else...Reading Heidgger on Kant is a good way to get a sense of German as very precise language capable of expressing very complex relationships, and yet it is also possible that this capability shapes as well as it is shaped by the thoughts of philosophers...I love English but I do not think of it as a very sharp weapon...German seems very sharp...

Didn't you say they were obtuse and immoral? Or was that someone else?

To look at our forms as though objects in their own light is abstracting an abstraction...It is like using math to explain math, and so it is bound to seem obtuse, by which I mean: overly complicated...I don't think one can necessarily do this better than another, and perhaps German is the perfect medium because it has such a high level of accuracy of thought...

Seems like what Hegel attempted. Also seems like a part of progress. But progress is relative to value. Which is another idea about ideas, abstraction about abstractions.

True, they are living forms as well.

Life is truth. Truth is a Right Life?

Reason is subordinate to Life. The will-to-truth is just a piece of Life.

IMO,

Truth is that which can be shown to be the case.

Both empirical truth and logical truth apply.

Factual truth is decided by scientific methods.

Analytic truths are decided by logical methods.

Truth is relative to the system that decides it.

There is no absolute truth because there is no system of decision that is absolute.

No system of decision contains all truths.

To know is to show.

Truth exists iff there are minds.

There are no 'eternal' truths.

What we show when we prove a proposition is its truth.