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Single Idea 20143

[catalogued under 1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism]

Full Idea

Strictly speaking there is no knowledge [science] without presuppositions; a philosophy, a 'faith', must always be there first of all, for knowledge to win from it a direction, a meaning, a limit, a method, a right to exist.

Gist of Idea

Scientific knowledge is nothing without a prior philosophical 'faith'

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (On the Genealogy of Morals [1887], III.§24)

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'On the Genealogy of Morals/ Ecce Homo', ed/tr. Kaufmann,Walter [Vintage 1969], p.151


A Reaction

He sees philosophers as the creators of this faith, and laughs at anyone who tries to set philosophy on a scientific basis.