A New Image of the World or Philosophical Fragments. Part II. Parallel Worlds, Levels of Understanding, Nietzsche’s Masks, Plato’s Cave Again and Other Topics

The author argues that individual actions, not those of the masses, drive human history, drawing parallels between Plato's Cave, Schopenhauer's representations, and Nietzsche's master-slave morality. Different levels of understanding are exemplified, and the impossibility of knowing how similar one's normal consciousness is to another's is disputed. The generation and destruction of internal 'demons' is analyzed as a necessary step for progressing into higher states of consciousness. The role of fear in the development of early cosmogonies is also commented on.

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Abstract

I present several ideas to stimulate the readers’ curiosity so that they seek, find, and modify their inner world. I present an analysis of the relationships between the Ladder model of Plato’s Cave, Schopenhauer Representations and Nietzsche’s master and slaves. The impossibility of knowing how similar my normal state of consciousness is to the state of consciousness of other human primates is disputed. The existence of different levels of understanding is abundantly exemplified. The generation and destruction of the Demons within us is analyzed in detail. Their destruction is a necessary step in progressing into the higher states of consciousness of the human mode. I reaffirm my ideas that the history of human primates is created by the actions of some individuals and never of the masses. I comment on the role of 'fear' in the development of the first cosmogonies.