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Single Idea 18315

[from 'Twilight of the Idols' by Friedrich Nietzsche, in 7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / h. Dasein (being human) ]

Full Idea

Being is everywhere thought in, foisted on, as cause; it is only from the conception 'ego' that there follows, derivately, the concept 'being'.

Gist of Idea

We get the concept of 'being' from the concept of the 'ego'

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols [1889], 2.5)

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1972], p.38


A Reaction

'Being' is such a remote abstraction that I doubt whether we can say anything at all meaningful about where it 'comes from'.

Related Idea

Idea 18314 In language we treat 'ego' as a substance, and it is thus that we create the concept 'thing' [Nietzsche]