For Kaufmann, Nietzsche’s existentialism is best understood when we consider him to be a “problem-thinker,” not a “system-thinker,” and that his use of aphorism was his way of “‘living through’ each problem.” By insisting that aphorism is not an abandonment but a realization of the serious inquiry into the problems of living, that it is not an “anarchy of atoms” but an experimental form for a philosophy of life, Kaufmann connected the dots: “Life does indeed reside in the whole of Nietzsche’s thinking and writing, and there is a unity which is obscured, but not obliterated, by the apparent
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