The structure of a sentence

Question

This is a sentence from Beyond Good and Evil:

The question is, how far an opinion is life-furthering, life- preserving, species-preserving, perhaps species-rearing, and we are fundamentally inclined to maintain that the falsest opinions (to which the synthetic judgments a priori belong), are the most indispensable to us, that without a recognition of logical fictions, without a comparison of reality with the purely IMAGINED world of the absolute and immutable, without a constant counterfeiting of the world by means of numbers, man could not live—that the renunciation of false opinions would be a renunciation of life, a negation of life.

I understood the meaning of sentence, but the structure of sentence is difficult to understand. Please explain.

Answer 1

It’s all just lists.

The author states "the question is" and then poses a list of two questions (one is misformed in the original posting).

Each question is a fully formed sentence.

The first question asks about a list of "X-preserving" actions.

The second question "are we inclined to maintain...." is followed by a list of "that" clauses, and the second contains a list of "without" phrases.

So while the author states "the question is", I count 9 different questions.

The question is:

(Q1) "how far an opinion is

• life-furthering,
• life- preserving,
• species-preserving,
• perhaps species-rearing,"

and

(Q2) "we areare we fundamentally inclined to maintain

• that the falsest opinions (to which the synthetic judgments a priori belong), are the most indispensable to us,
• that (
• • without a recognition of logical fictions,
• • without a comparison of reality with the purely IMAGINED world of the absolute and immutable,
• • without a constant counterfeiting of the world by means of numbers, ) man could not live
• that the renunciation of false opinions would be a renunciation of life, a negation of life."