{"id":14203,"date":"2026-06-19T13:57:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T20:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=14203"},"modified":"2026-06-19T13:57:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T20:57:45","slug":"dark-nietzschean-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/dark-nietzschean-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Nietzschean Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Substack<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/williamfvallicella\/p\/dark-nietzschean-thoughts?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true\">latest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The serious thinker is self-critical: his examination of life, without which his life is not worth living, is a self-examination, even unto a painful thinking against himself. He has the courage to entertain, which is not to say endorse,\u00a0dark thoughts. He is not an apologist for a ready-made worldview. He toes no party line. His watchword is \u2018inquiry,\u2019 not \u2018worldview.\u2019 He would have a worldview if he could, but he must inquire to find one.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Here is a dark thought, one I do not endorse, but entertain, though not with much hospitality.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/williamfvallicella\/p\/dark-nietzschean-thoughts?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true\">the rest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Substack latest. The serious thinker is self-critical: his examination of life, without which his life is not worth living, is a self-examination, even unto a painful thinking against himself. He has the courage to entertain, which is not to say endorse,\u00a0dark thoughts. He is not an apologist for a ready-made worldview. He toes no party &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/dark-nietzschean-thoughts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dark Nietzschean Thoughts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dark-thoughts","category-nietzsche"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14204,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14203\/revisions\/14204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}