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Single Idea 2897

[filed under theme 2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic ]

Full Idea

With dialectics the rabble gets on top.

Clarification

'Dialectic' is the impersonal pursuit of truth

Gist of Idea

With dialectics the rabble gets on top

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols [1889], 1.05)

Book Ref

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1972], p.31

The 49 ideas from 'Twilight of the Idols'

15606 Military idea: what does not kill me makes me stronger [Nietzsche]
2891 Only the English actually strive after happiness [Nietzsche]
2892 Wanting a system in philosophy is a lack of integrity [Nietzsche]
20101 Without music life would be a mistake [Nietzsche]
2893 In every age the wisest people have judged life to be worthless [Nietzsche]
2894 Value judgements about life can never be true [Nietzsche]
18308 A philosopher fails in wisdom if he thinks the value of life is a problem [Nietzsche]
2895 The value of life cannot be estimated [Nietzsche]
2896 I want to understand the Socratic idea that 'reason equals virtue equals happiness' [Nietzsche]
2897 With dialectics the rabble gets on top [Nietzsche]
2898 Anything which must first be proved is of little value [Nietzsche]
2899 The fanatical rationality of Greek philosophy shows that they were in a state of emergency [Nietzsche]
18309 The evidence of the senses is falsified by reason [Nietzsche]
2900 I revere Heraclitus [Nietzsche]
18310 The 'highest' concepts are the most general and empty concepts [Nietzsche]
18311 Philosophers hate values having an origin, and want values to be self-sufficient [Nietzsche]
18312 The supreme general but empty concepts must be compatible, and hence we get 'God' [Nietzsche]
18313 The big error is to think the will is a faculty producing effects; in fact, it is just a word [Nietzsche]
18315 We get the concept of 'being' from the concept of the 'ego' [Nietzsche]
18314 In language we treat 'ego' as a substance, and it is thus that we create the concept 'thing' [Nietzsche]
18316 The grounds for an assertion that the world is only apparent actually establish its reality [Nietzsche]
18317 The 'real being' of things is a nothingness constructed from contradictions in the actual world [Nietzsche]
18318 People who disparage actual life avenge themselves by imagining a better one [Nietzsche]
2901 How could the Church intelligently fight against passion if it preferred poorness of spirit to intelligence? [Nietzsche]
18320 To renounce war is to renounce the grand life [Nietzsche]
18319 Love is the spiritualisation of sensuality [Nietzsche]
2902 Healthy morality is dominated by an instinct for life [Nietzsche]
18322 When we establish values, that is life itself establishing them, through us [Nietzsche]
18321 To evaluate life one must know it, but also be situated outside of it [Nietzsche]
2903 A good human will be virtuous because they are happy [Nietzsche]
18323 Any explanation will be accepted as true if it gives pleasure and a feeling of power [Nietzsche]
2904 The doctrine of free will has been invented essentially in order to blame and punish people [Nietzsche]
2905 'Purpose' is just a human fiction [Nietzsche]
2906 By denying God we deny human accountability, and thus we redeem the world [Nietzsche]
18324 There are no moral facts, and moralists believe in realities which do not exist [Nietzsche]
20133 The 'motive' is superficial, and may even hide the antecedents of a deed [Nietzsche]
2908 There is a need for educators who are themselves educated [Nietzsche]
2909 Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned [Nietzsche]
18325 Christians believe that only God can know what is good for man [Nietzsche]
18326 The beautiful never stands alone; it derives from man's pleasure in man [Nietzsche]
20368 There are no 'individual' persons; we are each the sum of humanity up to this moment [Nietzsche]
18327 A wholly altruistic morality, with no egoism, is a thoroughly bad thing [Nietzsche]
18328 Invalids are parasites [Nietzsche]
18329 Sometimes it is an error to have been born - but we can rectify it [Nietzsche]
18330 Judging by the positive forces, the Renaissance was the last great age [Nietzsche]
18331 Democracy is organisational power in decline [Nietzsche]
18332 The creation of institutions needs a determination which is necessarily anti-liberal [Nietzsche]
2911 True justice is equality for equals and inequality for unequals [Nietzsche]
2913 Thucydides was the perfect anti-platonist sophist [Nietzsche]