Sublime

Freud, in other words – like Musil and Mann, but in a different kind of language – is describing a loss of confidence in our knowledge of the good, of the good as something we can both recognize, and aspire to live by, whatever our versions of the good happen to be (after psychoanalysis, distinctions between good and evil become less tenable, less

Caring-about is empty if it does not culminate in caring relations.”

On the Genealogy of Morals (1887), Nietzsche argues that morality is determined not by objective truths but by the interests of the moralizer.

In the philosopher, on the contrary, there is absolutely nothing impersonal; and above all, his morality furnishes a decided and decisive testimony as to who he is,—that is to say, in what order the deepest impulses of his nature stand to each other.

PSYCHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.

THE MADMAN----Have you not heard of that madman who lit

a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place,

and cried incessantly: "I seek God! I seek God!"---As

many of those who did not believe in God were standing around

just then, he provoked much laughter. Has he got lost? asked one.

Did he lose his way like a child? asked another. Or

Heidegger perhaps needed what a later generation would call an ‘intervention’, to save him from himself. It was, Jaspers implied, a failure of engagement on his own part — and he linked this to a more general failure of tolerant, educated Germans to face up to the challenge of the time.