ABSTRACT
Perhaps-Nietzsche himself suggests in many late passages-there are only appearances and no ultimate reality behind them . . . and perhaps there is no self. Perhaps individuals have no essence or nature; and i f they did, it might be said to be their task to overcome it. . . . I t is part of Nietzsche's profundity that he raised these questions. We shall return to them in the final chapter of this trilogy: "Mind and Mask."
