Nietzsche's Ontology, Pt. 3: Language & Metaphor

Please note that I'm trying to present Nietzsche's own ideas as neutrally as possible. I don't agree with everything Nietzsche ever said, and I'm not presenting these as my own ideas. This video should hopefully serve as an explainer for anyone who has read some of Nietzsche's works and has had a hard time making heads or tails of his ontology. ---------------- Here are all the citation abbreviations: T&L - On Truth and Lie in the Extramoral Sense PTG - Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks PPP - The Pre-Platonic Philosophers D - Daybreak GS - The Gay Science BGE - Beyond Good & Evil GM - On the Genealogy of Morals TI - Twilight of the Idols EH - Ecce Homo NF - Nachgelassene Fragmente (i.e., the unpublished fragments, as they appear in the _Kritische Gesamtausgabe_, i.e., the complete works of Nietzsche as edited by Nietzschean scholars Colli and Montinari.) Thus, for example, the citation "PPP, xii, p. 92" is The Pre-Platonic Philosophers chapter twelve ("Zeno"), page 192. "TI, v, §8" is Twilight of the Idols chapter five ("Morality as Anti-Nature"), aphorism number 8. "GS, iii, §109" is The Gay Science book three, aphorism number 109, and so on and so forth. As for the unpublished fragments, for example, "NF-1888, 14[79]" means the Nachlass from the year 1888, notebook number 14, aphorism number 79. The entirety of the Kritische Gesamtausgabe is available for free online at http://www.nietzschesource.org/#eKGWB, albeit only in German. ---------------- The painting in the thumbnail is a triptych called Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion by Francis Bacon, painted in 1944.