Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Harry G. Frankfurt, C.J. Thomae and Friedrich Nietzsche
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16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 6. Self as Higher Awareness
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Persons are distinguished by a capacity for second-order desires [Frankfurt]
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A person essentially has second-order volitions, and not just second-order desires [Frankfurt]
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16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 7. Self and Body / a. Self needs body
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The powerful self behind your thoughts and feelings is your body [Nietzsche]
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16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 2. Knowing the Self
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Just as skin hides the horrors of the body, vanity conceals the passions of the soul [Nietzsche]
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Things are the boundaries of humanity, so all things must be known, for self-knowledge [Nietzsche]
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Our knowledge of the many drives that constitute us is hopelessly incomplete [Nietzsche]
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Great self-examination is to become conscious of oneself not as an individual, but as mankind [Nietzsche]
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16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 3. Limits of Introspection
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'Know thyself' is impossible and ridiculous [Nietzsche]
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A cognitive mechanism wanting to know itself is absurd! [Nietzsche]
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We think each thought causes the next, unaware of the hidden struggle beneath [Nietzsche]
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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 3. Reference of 'I'
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Forget the word 'I'; 'I' is performed by the intelligence of your body [Nietzsche]
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16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 1. Self as Indeterminate
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A 'person' is just one possible abstraction from a bundle of qualities [Nietzsche]
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16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 2. Self as Social Construct
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There are no 'individual' persons; we are each the sum of humanity up to this moment [Nietzsche]
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16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 4. Denial of the Self
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We contain many minds, which fight for the 'I' of the mind [Nietzsche]
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The 'I' is a conceptual synthesis, not the governor of our being [Nietzsche]
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The 'I' is a fiction used to make the world of becoming 'knowable' [Nietzsche]
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Perhaps we are not single subjects, but a multiplicity of 'cells', interacting to create thought [Nietzsche]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 1. Nature of Free Will
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Free will is the capacity to choose what sort of will you have [Frankfurt]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will
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Wanting 'freedom of will' is wanting to pull oneself into existence out of the swamp of nothingness by one's own hair [Nietzsche]
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'Freedom of will' is the feeling of having a dominating force [Nietzsche]
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Philosophers invented "free will" so that our virtues would be permanently interesting to the gods [Nietzsche]
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A thought comes when 'it' wants, not when 'I' want [Nietzsche]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism
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People used to think that outcomes were from God, rather than consequences of acts [Nietzsche]
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That all events are necessary does not mean they are compelled [Nietzsche]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / b. Fate
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I have perfected fatalism, as recurrence and denial of the will [Nietzsche]
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Fate is inspiring, if you understand you are part of it [Nietzsche]
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