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First Part · IV. The Despisers of the Body

The body as big sagacity

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The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

The body is described as a many-sided unity of opposites.

Commentary on this chapter

What the critics said

Little and big sagacity: intellect and instinctAnthony M. Ludovici · Notes on Thus Spake Zarathustra, 1909interpretation

Ludovici says that in 'The Despisers of the Body' Zarathustra calls the intellect the little sagacity and the instincts the big sagacity, endorsing Schopenhauer's view of the intellect as the body's instrument and warning against exalting reason over the instincts.