Single Idea 7146

[catalogued under 11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 5. Cogito Critique]

Full Idea

Belief in the body is better established than belief in the mind.

Gist of Idea

Belief in the body is better established than belief in the mind

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Writings from Late Notebooks [1887], 40[15])

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Writings from the Late Notebooks', ed/tr. Bittner,Rüdiger [CUP 2003], p.43


A Reaction

Compare Spinoza in Idea 4833. Hawking says he thinks better because he is largely paralysed. Externalism about mind makes it necessarily a part of the world and hence physical. I am inclined to agree with Nietzsche.

Related Idea

Idea 4833 The human mind is the very idea or knowledge of the human body [Spinoza]