This work argues that, as long as the intellect is able to "deceive without injuring" it is still celebrating its own Saturnalia, and is able to do actions that bear the mark of "dissimulation." In another section, the author discusses what ideas make it so that a leaf has the quality of a "leaf" and honesty has the quality of "honesty." It begins by describing "clever beasts" somewhere in the universe among the "twinkling solar systems" who had invented the idea of knowing during the most mendacious minute of world history and argues that they, if they didn't have intellect, would have fled away from this existence like Gotthold Lessing's son. Its main idea is that concepts and abstractions are unique to humans and without that framework the mind is free from its binding strictures. For 10 points, name this short essay by Nietzsche about
This work argues that, as long as the intellect is able to "deceive without injuring" it is still celebrating its own Saturnalia, and is able to do actions that bear the mark of "dissimulation." In another section, the author discusses what ideas make it so that a leaf has the quality of a "leaf" and honesty has the quality of "honesty." It begins by describing "clever beasts" somewhere in the universe among the "twinkling solar systems" who had invented the idea of knowing during the most mendacious minute of world history and argues that they, if they didn't have intellect, would have fled away from this existence like Gotthold Lessing's son. Its main idea is that concepts and abstractions are unique to humans and without that framework the mind is free from its binding strictures. For 10 points, name this short essay by Nietzsche about the usage of illusion and metaphor to represent the title concepts.
This work argues that, as long as the intellect is able to "deceive without injuring" it is still celebrating its own Saturnalia, and is able to do actions that bear the mark of "dissimulation."
"On Truth and Lies in an Extra-Moral Sense" [accept close equivalents]