I was under the impression that it was entirely uncontroversial that neurosyphilis is what ultimately sent Nietzsche to the asylum and ultimately killed him.
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I had a period where I was deeply interested in Nietzsche (and I don't think I really understood most of what he had to say even then), so my knowledge would be frozen in that time. It's quite possible the tumor hypothesis hadn't made it to books for dumbdumbs like me by then. Interesting to know that though.
The late premodern period is somewhat faustian, we learned about the world to an extent never before paralleled, in return for our souls.
The modernist period was where the devil came to collect, and the postmodernist period is where we try to understand how to live without souls.
The next step logically must be a bargaining to get our souls back, and only by the grace of God can that happen. We won't be able to find our souls in lab measurements, we need to return to seeing ourselves as small pieces of an unfathomable universe which we have only a dim candle to see within.
The modernist period was where the devil came to collect, and the postmodernist period is where we try to understand how to live without souls.
The next step logically must be a bargaining to get our souls back, and only by the grace of God can that happen. We won't be able to find our souls in lab measurements, we need to return to seeing ourselves as small pieces of an unfathomable universe which we have only a dim candle to see within.