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Single Idea 20379
[filed under theme 2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 7. Status of Reason
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Full Idea
Reason is a support organ that slowly develops itself, ...and emancipates itself slowly to equal rights with the organic drives - so that reason (belief and knowledge) fights with the drives, as itself a new drive, very late come to preponderance.
Gist of Idea
Reason is just another organic drive, developing late, and fighting for equality
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Works (refs to 8 vol Colli and Montinari) [1885], 9/11[243]), quoted by John Richardson - Nietzsche's System 4.3.2 n55
Book Ref
Richardson,John: 'Nietzsche's System' [OUP 2002], p.243
A Reaction
A very powerful and fascinating idea. There is a silly post-modern tendency to think that Nietzsche denegrates and trivialises reason because of remarks like this, but he takes ranking the drives to be the supreme activity. I rank reason high.
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[importance of reason in human life]:
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Seek salvation in the wisdom of reason
[Anon (Bhag)]
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362
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The greatest misfortune for a person is to develop a dislike for argument
[Plato]
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623
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It is readily agreed that thinking is the most godlike of things in our experience
[Aristotle]
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2801
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Intelligence which looks ahead is a natural master, while bodily strength is a natural slave
[Aristotle]
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501
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Reason is a more powerful persuader than gold
[Democritus (attr)]
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23248
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Early empiricists said reason was just a useless concept introduced by philosophers
[Galen, by Frede,M]
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2857
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Since Plato all philosophers have followed the herd, except Descartes, stuck in superficial reason
[Nietzsche on Descartes]
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6222
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If a decision is in accord with right reason, everyone can agree with it
[Cumberland]
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12526
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Opposition to reason is mad
[Locke]
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12963
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Opposing reason is opposing truth, since reason is a chain of truths
[Leibniz]
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3807
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Reason is and ought to be the slave of the passions
[Hume]
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6912
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For Fichte there is no God outside the ego, and 'our religion is reason'
[Fichte, by Feuerbach]
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2896
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I want to understand the Socratic idea that 'reason equals virtue equals happiness'
[Nietzsche]
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4530
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Reason is a mere idiosyncrasy of a certain species of animal
[Nietzsche]
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Reason is just another organic drive, developing late, and fighting for equality
[Nietzsche]
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21945
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Foucault originally felt that liberating reason had become an instrument of domination
[Foucault, by Gutting]
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18543
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Do aesthetic reasons count as reasons, if they are rejectable without contradiction?
[Scruton]
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