Single Idea 18314

[catalogued under 9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 6. Nihilism about Objects]

Full Idea

It is the metaphysics of language (that is, of reason) ....which believes in the 'ego', in the ego as being, in the ego as substance, and which projects its belief in the ego-substance on to all things - only thus does it create the concept 'thing'.

Gist of Idea

In language we treat 'ego' as a substance, and it is thus that we create the concept 'thing'

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols [1889], 2.5)

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1972], p.38


Related Idea

Idea 18315 We get the concept of 'being' from the concept of the 'ego' [Nietzsche]