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Single Idea 23194
[filed under theme 24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 14. Nationalism
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Full Idea
People who speak one language and read the same newspapers today call themselves 'nations', and also want much too eagerly to be of common ancestry and history.
Gist of Idea
People feel united as a nation by one language, but then want a common ancestry and history
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1885-86 [1886], 34[203])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from 1885-86 (v 16)', ed/tr. Del Caro,Adrian [Stanford 2020], p.60
A Reaction
This sort of nationalism is still with us, as white supremacy, and as history as mythology. But we can't just shake off a sense of which gene pools we come from, and which lines of history are our personal inheritance.
The
31 ideas
from 'Unpublished Notebooks 1885-86'
23208
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Caesar and Napoleon point to the future, when they pursue their task regardless of human sacrifice
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23209
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Each of our personal drives has its own perspective
[Nietzsche]
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23210
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That all events are necessary does not mean they are compelled
[Nietzsche]
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23211
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Events are just interpretations of groups of appearances
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23212
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A text has many interpretations, but no 'correct' one
[Nietzsche]
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23213
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The greatest drive of life is to discharge strength, rather than preservation
[Nietzsche]
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23214
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For the strongest people, nihilism gives you wings!
[Nietzsche]
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23183
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Different abilities are needed for living in an incomplete and undogmatic system
[Nietzsche]
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23184
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The mind is a simplifying apparatus
[Nietzsche]
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23186
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Numbers enable us to manage the world - to the limits of counting
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23187
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Whatever their origin, concepts survive by being useful
[Nietzsche]
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23188
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Bad writers use shapeless floating splotches of concepts
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23189
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Concepts are rough groups of simultaneous sensations
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23190
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Consciousness is our awareness of our own mental life
[Nietzsche]
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23191
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Minds have an excluding drive to scare things off, and a selecting one to filter facts
[Nietzsche]
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23192
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Concepts don’t match one thing, but many things a little bit
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23193
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Napoleon was very focused, and rightly ignored compassion
[Nietzsche]
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23194
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People feel united as a nation by one language, but then want a common ancestry and history
[Nietzsche]
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23195
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Laws of nature are actually formulas of power relations
[Nietzsche]
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23197
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Memory is essential, and is only possible by means of abbreviation signs
[Nietzsche]
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23196
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Logic is a fiction, which invents the view that one thought causes another
[Nietzsche]
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23185
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In chemistry every substance pushes, and thus creates new substances
[Nietzsche]
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23198
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Aesthetics can be more basic than morality, in our pleasure in certain patterns of experience
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23199
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What is the search for truth if it isn't moral?
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23200
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The controlling morality of aristocracy is the desire to resemble their ancestors
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23202
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Like all philosophers, I love truth
[Nietzsche]
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23203
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The great question is approaching, of how to govern the earth as a whole
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23204
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To be someone you need property, and wanting more is healthy
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23205
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Thought starts as ambiguity, in need of interpretation and narrowing
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23206
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Schematic minds think thoughts are truer if they slot into a scheme
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23207
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Appearance is the sole reality of things, to which all predicates refer
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