Full Idea
There is playacting going on among systematisers: inasmuch as they want to make the system whole and round off the horizon around it, they must attempt to have their weaker qualities appear in the same style as their strong ones.
Gist of Idea
The desire for a complete system requires making the weak parts look equal to the rest
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Dawn (Daybreak) [1881], 318)
Book Reference
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Dawn (Daybreak) (v 5)', ed/tr. Smith, Brittain [Stanford 2011], p.193
A Reaction
Filed under 'rationalism', because they are the notorious system builders, but the same tendency and problem can be seen to some extent among empiricsts who seek completeness. David Lewis, perhaps.
Related Idea
Idea 19587 Philosophy aims to produce a priori an absolute and artistic world system [Novalis]