Sublime

It is possible for Auerbach to see a particular writer such as Saint-Simon as an almost miraculous mutation exhibiting the shape of the future: “In his level of style, Saint-Simon is a precursor of modern and ultra-modern forms of conceiving and representing life.” Truth, for Auerbach, is not the property of an individual, indeed not essentially

“All truly great thoughts,” Nietzsche informs his reader in The Twilight of the Idols, “are conceived while walking.”

He was even in many ways very modern, which some rather erroneously suppose to be the same as being human;

The Uilsa story reveals his strong, almost violent emotional side and his ability to tap the Dionysian spirit; the ethics essay reflects his lifelong interest not in epistemology but in ethics. Already his question is not “What can I know?” but “How should I live?”10

GEORGE BERKELEY (1685-1753) is important in philosophy through his denial of the existence of matter—a denial which he supported by a number of ingenious arguments.