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Full Idea
Both the earliest and most recent philosophers are all oblivious of how much the will to truth itself first requires justification: here there is a gap in every philosophy - how did this come about?
Gist of Idea
Philosophers have never asked why there is a will to truth in the first place
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (On the Genealogy of Morals [1887], III.§24)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'On the Genealogy of Morals/ Ecce Homo', ed/tr. Kaufmann,Walter [Vintage 1969], p.152
A Reaction
This seems to me a meta-philosophical question which will lead off into (quite interesting) cultural studies and (trite) evolutionary theory. Truth isn't a value, it is the biological function of brains.
| 4421 | Philosophers have never asked why there is a will to truth in the first place [Nietzsche] |
| 18974 | Truth is a species of good, being whatever proves itself good in the way of belief [James] |
| 19569 | We have a basic epistemic duty to believe truth and avoid error [Chisholm, by Kvanvig] |
| 20222 | Knowledge either aims at a quantity of truths, or a quality of understanding of truths [Zagzebski] |
| 19568 | Making sense of things, or finding a good theory, are non-truth-related cognitive successes [Kvanvig] |