he saw how modern philosophers’ view of themselves and their enterprise can be seen in the “masks” they adopt and the “audience” they believe they are speaking to. For the modern ascetic philosopher, believing he speaks on behalf of truth causes him to adopt the “traditional mask of the Knower; that is, as the only form in which he could carry authority.” But if the modern analytic Knower’s policy is to renounce the moral and aesthetic elements of man’s daily life as unworthy of philosophical examination, who constitutes the “we” of philosophy? Nietzsche’s discussion of “the problem of
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