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Full Idea
We are in the process of figuring out the being of things: consequently we must already have an opinion as to what being is. This can be an error! E.g., I.
Gist of Idea
To think about being we must have an opinion about what it is
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1882-84 [1883], 9[41])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from the period of 'Zarathustra' (v 14)', ed/tr. Loeb/Tinsley [Stanford 2019], p.318
A Reaction
The point of 'I' is that we unquestioningly think the self is a given aspect of being, as in Descartes.
| 24131 | There is no 'being'; it is just the opposition to nothingness [Nietzsche] |
| 24112 | To think about being we must have an opinion about what it is [Nietzsche] |
| 5657 | Frege's logic showed that there is no concept of being [Frege, by Scruton] |
| 23077 | The word 'being' is very tempting, but in fact means nothing at all [Cioran] |
| 10787 | Is being just referent of the verb 'to be'? [Marcus (Barcan)] |
| 21847 | Before Being there is politics [Deleuze] |
| 21903 | Ontology does not tell what there is; it is just a strange adventure [Deleuze, by May] |
| 21904 | Being is a problem to be engaged, not solved, and needs a new mode of thinking [Deleuze, by May] |
| 12332 | The modern view of Being comes when we reject numbers as merely successions of One [Badiou] |
| 12326 | The primitive name of Being is the empty set; in a sense, only the empty set 'is' [Badiou] |