id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 7653708273g Ryan Faraghi From the Impossible to the Imperative: Pleasure in the Thought of Leopardi and Nietzsche 2021 .txt text/plain 188 6 40 The thesis then argues that Nietzsche's negative attitude towards factual truth is, at least in part, inherited from Leopardi himself, and explains how an analogous understanding of the role of pleasure and a radical skepticism towards a stoic system of morals is at the core of both of their works. This thesis discusses Leopardi's theory of pleasure as the motivating force behind human action, and its implications for the idea of truth. cache/7653708273g.txt txt/7653708273g.txt