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Single Idea 7156

[catalogued under 12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 5. Interpretation]

Full Idea

All sensory perceptions are entirely suffused with value judgements (useful or harmful - consequently pleasant or unpleasant).

Gist of Idea

Sense perceptions contain values (useful, so pleasant)

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Writings from Late Notebooks [1887], 02[95])

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Writings from the Late Notebooks', ed/tr. Bittner,Rüdiger [CUP 2003], p.78


A Reaction

This seems like a wonderful anticipation of modern neuroscience findings about emotion. It is a nice challenge to Hume's 'impressions' and Russell's 'logical atoms'. But knowledge is power, and we can strip off the values from the perceptions.