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Esoteric
Exoteric knowledge, unlike esoteric knowledge, is that which is immediately understandable to the general public, or at least a broad, unspecialized, and “uninitiated” audience.
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Exoteric Term Timeline in Beyond Good and Evil
The timeline below shows where the term Exoteric appears in Beyond Good and Evil. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
2. The Free Spirit
...them as errors or even crimes. Nietzsche privileges the esoteric approach to philosophy over the exoteric, arguing that the philosopher should look down from above on the problems of the world....
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