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4484 | Nihilism results from valuing the world by the 'categories of reason', because that is fiction [Nietzsche] |
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. | |
From: Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §12B) | |
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. |