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Full Idea
I am not interested …in ways of thinking that are not anchored in the body and the senses and in the earth.
Gist of Idea
I only want thinking that is anchored in body, senses and earth
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1884-85 [1884], 26[352])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from 1884-85 (v 15)', ed/tr. Loeb,P.S./Tinsley,D.F. [Stanford 2022], p.223
A Reaction
Exhibit A for Nietzsche as Naturalist. Indeed, this could be a manifesto for the whole school. I totally and completely and utterly agree with Nietzsche's assertion!. I see the 'anchor' as two-way: thought connects to earth, and thought arises from it.
21268 | Non-human things are explicable naturally, and voluntary things by the will, so God is not needed [Aquinas] |
20127 | Laws of nature are universal, so everything must be understood through those laws [Spinoza] |
24151 | I only want thinking that is anchored in body, senses and earth [Nietzsche] |
20123 | First see nature as non-human, then fit ourselves into this view of nature [Nietzsche] |
18391 | 'Naturalism' says only the world of space-time exists [Armstrong] |
3509 | Externalism may be the key idea in philosophical naturalism [Papineau] |