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4554 | The concept of the 'will' is just a false simplification by our understanding [Nietzsche] |
Full Idea: There is no such thing as 'will'; it is only a simplifying conception of understanding, as is 'matter'. | |
From: Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §671) | |
A reaction: Nietzsche shares this view with British philosophers such as Hobbes and Bernard Williams. So what is the ontological status of the 'will to power'? |
4552 | There is no such things a pure 'willing' on its own; the aim must always be part of it [Nietzsche] |
Full Idea: There is no such thing as 'willing', but only willing something: one must not remove the aim from the total condition - as epistemologists do. 'Willing' as they understand it is as little a reality as 'thinking': it is a pure fiction. | |
From: Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §668) | |
A reaction: This is parallel to the common modern assertion that emotions also have intentional content, and cannot be understood as having a 'pure' identity. |