%0 Journal Article
%A Lane, David
%D 2017
%T On Truth and Lie in a Rhetorical Sense: Semantic Perils in Nietzschean Thought
%U https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/journal_contribution/On_Truth_and_Lie_in_a_Rhetorical_Sense_Semantic_Perils_in_Nietzschean_Thought/5002058
%R 10.4225/03/59212c6ad60c8
%2 https://bridges.monash.edu/ndownloader/files/8423639
%K Friedrich Nietzsche
%K The Birth of Tragedy
%K Human, All Too Human
%K Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
%X
A dominant theme for Friedrich Nietzsche, one that he often employs to punctuate and dramatise key theoretical concerns, is the distinction between truth and lie. While Nietzsches truth/lie thematic finds expression through a number of concepts on the nature of human deceit, its role within his philosophy may be organised in accordance with three major fields of investigation: morality (where the lie is exaggerated and polemicised), the critique of knowledge (which advances the notion of truth as fiction), and aesthetics (where the lie is recast into a positive sense).
Although this tripartite framework is heuristic, its value for the exami-nation of the truth/lie thematic is twofold: it clarifies the essential problems in Nietzsches philosophical treatment and application of this theme which upon a cursory analysis appear confused and unproductive while at the same time providing a perspective that foregrounds the cumulative effect of his thought a dissolution of the conventional semantic integrity distinguishing truth from lie. This paper examines the semantic innovation in Nietzsches truth/lie thematic, an approach that calls into question the positions of interpretation adopted in his philosophy.
%I Monash University