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.
- Fidelity to the earth and the bodyThe chapter's central formulation of the body as a great reason.
What the critics said
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.