How do you think we form the self?
Is it a process of affirmation, or negation? In other words, do we declare through inclusion and desire, stating ‘I AM’, or do we declare through exclusion and limitation, stating ‘I AM NOT’?
Strictly speaking, we include and exclude simultaneously, but I personally believe we form through knowing our limits, that is, through negation.
Nietzschean affirmation, which says ‘yes’ to everything, is an acceptence of limitations as it has the limit of everything in this world, there is no outside of this world, no beyond this world and so negation doesn’t seem possible, given where he sets the boundary.
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