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Single Idea 24107
[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
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Full Idea
Once it has taken control of the intellect, every single human drive probably demands to be recognised as the ultimate lord and goal-setter of all human matters.
Gist of Idea
Once a drive controls the intellect, it rules, and sets the goals
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1882-84 [1883], 7[057])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from the period of 'Zarathustra' (v 14)', ed/tr. Loeb/Tinsley [Stanford 2019], p.233
A Reaction
This is the best line of attack against the view I like, that human values arise out of the central functions of human nature. It is roughly the existential objection. Is all intellect controlled by some drive, or can intellect seize control of a drive?
Related Idea
Idea 24117
We need lower and higher drives, but they must be under firm control [Nietzsche]
The
28 ideas
from 'Unpublished Notebooks 1882-84'
24096
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Unlike time, space is subjective. Empty space was assumed, but it doesn't exist
[Nietzsche]
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24115
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There is no proof that we forget things - only that we can't recall
[Nietzsche]
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24116
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Justice says people are not equal, and should become increasingly unequal
[Nietzsche]
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24117
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We need lower and higher drives, but they must be under firm control
[Nietzsche]
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24118
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Do away with punishment. Counter-retribution is as bad as the crime
[Nietzsche]
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24119
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The eternal return of wastefulness is a terrible thought
[Nietzsche]
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24120
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Great orators lead their arguments, rather than following them
[Nietzsche]
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24122
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Life is forces conjoined by nutrition, to produce resistance, arrangement and value
[Nietzsche]
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24123
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My eternal recurrence is opposed to feeling fragmented and imperfect
[Nietzsche]
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24097
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The pragmatics of language is more comprehensible than the meaning
[Nietzsche]
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24098
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Reasons that justify punishment can also justify the crime
[Nietzsche]
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24121
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Greeks might see modern analysis of what is human as impious
[Nietzsche]
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24099
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We contain many minds, which fight for the 'I' of the mind
[Nietzsche]
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24100
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If you don't want war, remove your borders; but you set up borders because you want war
[Nietzsche]
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24101
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We always assign values, but we may not value those values
[Nietzsche]
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24102
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Thoughts are signs (just as words are)
[Nietzsche]
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24103
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You should not want too many virtues; one is enough
[Nietzsche]
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24104
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We don't create logic, time and space! The mind obeys laws because they are true
[Nietzsche]
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24105
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Drives make us feel non-feelings; Will is the effect of those feelings
[Nietzsche]
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24106
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Talk of 'utility' presupposes that what is useful to people has been defined
[Nietzsche]
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24107
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Once a drive controls the intellect, it rules, and sets the goals
[Nietzsche]
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24108
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Actions are just a release of force. They seize on something, which becomes the purpose
[Nietzsche]
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24109
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Actual morality is more complicated and subtle than theory (which gets paralysed)
[Nietzsche]
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24110
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Some things we would never do, even for the highest ideals
[Nietzsche]
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24111
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Happiness is the active equilibrium of our drives
[Nietzsche]
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24112
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To think about being we must have an opinion about what it is
[Nietzsche]
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24113
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Our motives don't explain our actions
[Nietzsche]
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24114
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The pain in truth is when it destroys a belief
[Nietzsche]
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