Single Idea 24105

[catalogued under 20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act]

Full Idea

'Drive' is only a translation from the language of nonfeeling into the language of feeling. 'Will' is what is communicated to our feelings as a result of that process - in other words an effect, and not the beginning and cause.

Gist of Idea

Drives make us feel non-feelings; Will is the effect of those feelings

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1882-84 [1883], 7[025])

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from the period of 'Zarathustra' (v 14)', ed/tr. Loeb/Tinsley [Stanford 2019], p.224


A Reaction

This shows the link between his central idea of 'drives' in psychology, and the actions that result. Effectively this makes all our actions arise from the unconscious. Intention and choice are effectively epiphenomena.

Related Idea

Idea 23191 Minds have an excluding drive to scare things off, and a selecting one to filter facts [Nietzsche]