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Single Idea 5652

[catalogued under 3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 8. Subjective Truth]

Full Idea

For Nietzsche, the true belief is the one which augments one's power.

Gist of Idea

True beliefs are those which augment one's power

Source

report of Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888]) by Roger Scruton - Short History of Modern Philosophy Ch.13

Book Reference

Scruton,Roger: 'A Short History of Modern Philosophy' [ARK 1985], p.193


A Reaction

Sounds suspiciously like pragmatism. Sounds suspiciously unlike truth as we know it. So many philosophers seem to me to confuse the concept of the truth itself with the ability of humans grasp the truth, or be interested in it. Truth is not part of us.