The Oddness of the OD
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“Bakker, R.B.M. de” wrote: Insight into the fictional character of metaphysical notions (in our era) is therefore indispensable, and to just
claim overhistorical validity is nothing but one-eyed hybris in the face of the massacres being performed with the
help of these same once venerable notions. I’d say, Jud is one step ahead here, insofar the life form, handling the
notions, is posed into the foreground. This life form being Jud himself, then reveals the consequences of blind
opposition to metaphysics, the dependence on which is tightened with every objection. And from here to the reasons
for his slander, is a simple passage. To get stuck in an impossible situation, is always the result of the incapacity
to deal with one’s widerwille. Opposing it, by recurrence to a merely historical metaphysics, just tightens into an
even more hidden aversion. Just look where this has brought someone like Anthony. So that in the end it does not
make any difference whether one knows the classics or not.
Rene,
going by mere “smell” is no less a reversion. The passage is similarly simple: metaphysics is now fictional, so smell is the only guide.
And as the classics tell us, smell alone cannot overcome the Protagorean levelling of all smells. including Hitler’s quite keen sense of smell.
