While I'm thinking ahead about some of the things I would like to eventually discuss on here, something has occurred to me. It's occurred to me that I'll be saying some controversial things. By itself, controversy doesn't pose a problem, but I want to make a small distinction between how I would defend my controversial claims and how others might defend their controversial claims (should they actually do that).
If I say something controversial, it's not because I want to be right, but rather, it's because I want to be right.
As though this didn't indicate the potentially Nietzschean character of this blog to begin with, I want to highlight what Nietzsche calls the youngest virtue, probity, or honesty (Redlichkeit) (1). That is the virtue I aspire to as well, and I really mean that. My only ultimate goal is truth-tropism. Any controversial claims I make will be motivated by that virtue, and not anything entirely personal (to the extent that is, that my virtue isn't entirely personal, but that's a different matter altogether).
Notes
(1) Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 1.3.
