My perspective about the first passage is that Nietzsche seems to be under the impression that humans unconciously trade their gift of unlimited imagination and creativity for an urge to seek truth, for which he describes as “a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms.” He introduces the idea of the creation of language and concept. Humans only think and view the world from their own perspectives and experiences, which means that humans naturally categorize people, objects, and places abstractedly. Humans encounter numerous of events daily and when they encounter similar events, they decide to create new concepts that can be used to identify and differentiate different things. This then becomes the supposed “way” things are supposed to be, the conventional way. Humans are rational beings who are under the control of abstractions, forming new concepts of numerical and spatial relationships. However, Nietzsche proposes the question of where truth even originates from. He is doubtful of what truth really is and he even claims that “truths are illusions…metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins.” He believes that humans are too absorbed into the creation of concepts that they forget that there are an unlimited number of other possibilities beyond human knowledge and experience. With this limited view of perspective, humans tend to overlook the individuality and essence of the object. They also forget that humans, themselves, are subjects of a concept too; how can humans decide the final conclusion of what and why certain things are when they themselves are part of that what and why?There is no such thing as certainty in the world, because truth can vary in different perspectives.

Ariana – i only wrote what i understood.