and now, and as an end in itself. The value of life is in the living of it. The meaning of life cannot be encapsulated in thought, but in body. Life isn’t determined in its abstract contemplation, it is an ever-present, ceaseless activity. Indeed, as we saw in the introduction to this book, Nietzsche claims that there is no ‘meaning’ or ‘truth’ of life to discover, for ‘our most sacred convictions, the unchanging elements in our supreme values, are judgements of our muscles’ (WP 314). Physiological
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