display all the ideas for this combination of texts
3 ideas
4537 | We can't know whether there is knowledge if we don't know what it is [Nietzsche] |
Full Idea: If we do not know what knowledge is, we cannot possibly answer the question of whether there is knowledge. | |
From: Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §530) | |
A reaction: Obviously Nietzsche is pessimistic about the prospects here, but this is a motto for the whole modern analysis of knowledge, and (besides) we have lots of things (like a concept of identity) which we can't define. |
20258 | Most people treat knowledge as a private possession [Nietzsche] |
Full Idea: Most people take a thing they know under their protection, as if knowing it turned it into their possession. | |
From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Dawn (Daybreak) [1881], 285) | |
A reaction: A typically wicked and subtle remark. This presumably makes knowledge part of the will to power, with which Francis Bacon would presumably agree. |
4485 | Every belief is a considering-something-true [Nietzsche] |
Full Idea: Every belief is a considering-something-true. | |
From: Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §015) | |
A reaction: This is correct, I think, but a little perplexing coming from Nietzsche, who seems to deny objective truth. Presumably we should follow instinct, rather than 'belief'. |