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20359 | The nature of being, of things, is much easier to understand than is becoming [Nietzsche] |
Full Idea: The doctrine of being, of things, of all sorts of fixed unities is a hundred times easier than the doctrine of becoming, of development. | |
From: Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §238) | |
A reaction: I don't know if he intended it, but this is a fierce shaft hurled at Aristotle, who gives a wonderful essentialist account of the nature of things, but can offer nothing more on becoming than the doctrine of potentiality and actuality. |
4525 | There are no facts in themselves, only interpretations [Nietzsche] |
Full Idea: Against positivism, which halts at phenomena, and says "there are only facts", I would say: No, facts is precisely what there is not, only interpretations. | |
From: Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §481) | |
A reaction: A cornerstone of relativism is the denial of facts. A cornerstone of realism is the affirmation of facts. Personally, I affirm facts. |
4543 | There are no 'facts-in-themselves', since a sense must be projected into them to make them 'facts' [Nietzsche] |
Full Idea: There are no 'facts-in-themselves', for a sense must always be projected into them before they can be 'facts'. | |
From: Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §556) | |
A reaction: The relativist (and anti-realist) view. Any attempt at taking this proposal seriously induces a hopeless vertigo, a well known consequence of reading Nietzsche. I don't believe this. It is not to my taste. |