Chapter 3 03 How the 'Real World' Finally Became a Fable

- a wrong history 1. The real world is accessible to the wise, pious, and virtuous—he lives in it, he is it. (The oldest form of the Idea, relatively clear, intelligible, persuasive. In other words: "I, Plato, am the truth.") 2. The real world is now unattainable, but promised to the wise, the pious, and the virtuous ("to the repentant sinner"). (Advancement of ideas: it becomes more subtle, more elusive, more elusive,— It becomes woman, it becomes Christian...) 3. The real world is unattainable, unprovable, and unpromising, but is seen as a consolation, an obligation, and a command.

(Essentially still the old sun, but clouded by fog and skepticism; ideas sublime, pale, northern, Königsberg.) 4. The Real World—Is It Unreachable?Anyway, not reached.If you don't reach it, you don't know it.So there is no consolation, no rescue, no obligation: how can the unknown oblige us? ... (Dawn. First yawn of reason. Crow of positivism.) 5. The "true world" is an idea that no longer serves any purpose, nor obligates man,—an idea that has become useless and superfluous, and therefore an idea that is refuted, let us abolish it! (Dawn; breakfast; bon sens1 and the restoration of cheerfulness; Plato blushes with shame; all free souls boo.)

-------- ① French: good (sound) feeling. 6. We have abolished the real world: what world is left?Perhaps a world of illusions? ……but not!Along with the real world, we also abolish the world of illusion! (Noon: the hour of the shortest shadow; the end of the oldest error, the summit of humanity; the opening words of Zarathustra.