The Last Knowledge

[mr_reed]

From A. K. Coomaraswamy, The Transformation of Nature in Art, Dover Publications, p. 63:
What is knowledge? Threefold: (1) of particulars and generals, sensible, empirical, literal, indicative, samvyavahārika-pratyakṣa, (2) of universals, rational or intelligible, allegorical, conventional, parokṣa, (3) of sameness, without image or likeness,

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[to_kalliston]

"Subject," "object," "attribute"--these distinctions are fabricated and now imposed as a schematism upon all the apparent facts. - The Will to Power, 549

While Nietzsche seems to frequently react against the notion of the empirical "I", given the general character of his writings one can only wonder as to whether or not he meant to dissolve the ego "from below" (that is, into some proto-Jungian "collective unconsciousness") , or "from above" (that is, in the transcendence of God).