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The chains of language that guage our performance.

Nietzsche contends, The Gay Science, (Kaufman translation 1974, p.167) that “There are no laws in nature, only necessities.” He does not deny the existence of regularities in nature but he contends that there is no regulative divine authority in charge of the process. Thus he writes: “There is nobody who commands, nobody who obeys, nobody who trespasses.” (Ibid., pp. 167-168.) And, “The total character of the world is in all eternity, chaos. Form, beauty wisdom, arrangement and whatever other terms we employ are there for our aesthetic anthropomorphism.”(Ibid).

Then, does it follow that all those aesthetic terms I use to gauge my performance are just man-made, regulative?   Yes, the chains of language.


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