It is his hope that the overman will find the pure truth and if not, at least a purer truth. It will be a matter of great suffering to break through to the new truth. The students should discuss the concept of overman and what we can understand about it from the texts. He turns the tools of the Enlightenment on the critique of truth itself. Finally, he raises the relation of truth to language and discusses the limits of using language to specify truth.
Language can point to truth but it leaves an uncertainty in our minds as well.
The problem of multiple interpretations is raised. Using the texts, bring out Nietzsche's concerns with the nature of truth. Notice the different approach in The Madman, here man has murdered God. He looks at the pre-conditions for the truth of God and finds them sick with the symptoms he has discovered in his general critique of truth. What he is not ready to accept is St. Paul's view of Christ and the Church's construct of Christianity.