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[from 'The Will to Power (notebooks)' by Friedrich Nietzsche, in 7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism ]

Full Idea

The faith in the categories of reason is the cause of nihilism; we have measured the value of the world according to categories that refer to a purely fictitious world.

Gist of Idea

Nihilism results from valuing the world by the 'categories of reason', because that is fiction

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §12B)

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'The Will to Power', ed/tr. Kaufmann,W /Hollingdate,R [Vintage 1968], p.13


A Reaction

Presumably this refers to Kant, whose dogmatic assertions about the structure of human reason are as open to objection as those of Freud. Nietzsche may have a very profound truth here.