Article Philosophical horror game: ‘Nietzsche’s Shadow’ + Tractatus logico-philosophicus

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Tractatus logico-philosophicus
https://8d7fd374-64f8-4e57-b8e1-07b9b2c6...359bbe.pdf

INTRO: Philip Bold offers fellow philosophy instructors a useful metaphor for explaining early Wittgenstein...

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Philosophical horror game ‘Nietzsche’s Shadow’ now available
https://bloody-disgusting.com/video-game...le-trailer

EXCERPTS: Back in April, developer Philosophica Games announced Nietzsche’s Shadow, an interesting take on a horror game that’s described as “the intersection of philosophical thought and psychological horror” for fans of titles such as Layers of Fear and What Remains of Edith Finch. [...] True to its description, Nietzsche’s Shadow is a single-player experience with no combat mechanics, focusing instead on exploration, collection, and philosophical choice. [...] As you collect the fragments of your work across three distinct regions, you’ll experience Nietzsche’s profound concepts—Eternal Return, Will to Power, Death of God—as you traverse the Alps. At the same time, you’ll also unravel subtle clues suggesting this entire experience may be something far more unsettling than it first appears... (MORE - missing details)

https://youtu.be/c1bNB0p10ds

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/c1bNB0p10ds

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If I thought there was any chance that it might equal or exceed the quality of what I see played out on the side of my screen I might be interested. As things are, no.

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Something about Nietzsche still attracts young people. His bad ass look combined with his renegade reputation perhaps? Even back in his own day he had quite a student fan base. I studied him hungrily in my early twenties with my big worn-out paperback copy of "The Will To Power." Many know him mainly thru his concise and thought-provoking aphorisms. Still others go into him deep enough to know a Wiki summary of his main ideas. But to really appreciate him you have to read his writings themselves. How he almost contemptuously takes apart value systems and worldviews with the skill of a surgeon performing an autopsy. Below is a good example of that. That's how you come to awe the man himself. His ability to courageously push the most extreme lengths of skeptical thinking, to the point of making us question just about everything we've been taught. Young people SHOULD love that, and learn from him exactly how to do it. Then they will be readied for coming up with new values and truths themselves, assuming there ARE any.

“In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the highest and most mendacious minute of 'world history' — yet only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die.

One might invent such a fable and still not have illustrated sufficiently how wretched, how shadowy and flighty, how aimless and arbitrary, the human intellect appears in nature. There have been eternities when it did not exist; and when it is done for again, nothing will have happened. For this intellect has no further mission that would lead beyond human life. It is human, rather, and only its owner and producer gives it such importance, as if the world pivoted around it. But if we could communicate with the mosquito, then we would learn that he floats through the air with the same self-importance, feeling within itself the flying center of the world. There is nothing in nature so despicable or insignificant that it cannot immediately be blown up like a bag by a slight breath of this power of knowledge; and just as every porter wants an admirer, the proudest human being, the philosopher, thinks that he sees on the eyes of the universe telescopically focused from all sides on his actions and thoughts.”― Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense

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An aside but.. interesting .. you sort of mentioned it. Do young people (and their opinions) even matter? In a democracy their votes are going to be floating through the system for the next half century or more.

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Do young people (and their opinions) even matter?

Why would anybody and what they think not matter? Does thinking matter at all? Guess it depends on what it means to matter. As of the last US election, voting seems to have very little to do with thinking, and perhaps even less with mattering.

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My 'take' from reading Nietsche when young was/is - "God is dead. Man has become Superman" - which would be wonderful if 'man' didn't suffer from pathological stupidity.