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Nietzsche distinguishes philosophical from artistic or scientific striving by its being a "legislation of greatness," and I propose to read Human, All Too Human (1878) as bearing a distinct philosophical "legislation of greatness" intended as independent of and to be set over both art and science.","Chapter four studies the free spirit of 1878 in connection to the core process and to Nietzsche's autobiography of 1888. The philosopher is one kind of free spirit, and the philosophical evaluations--the legislations of value in Human, All Too Human--are explored and systematically related to one another to reveal the separate but equally significant scientific (psychological) and artistic (dionysian) sides of Nietzsche's overall philosophical project in this book.","Chapter five isolates the scientific side of Nietzsche's project in Human, All Too Human. 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