Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche · 1885

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in brief

Nietzsche insists that sense-organs are not phenomena in the sense of idealistic philosophy and rejects the idea that the external world is “the work of our organs,” framing the debate as avoiding conceptual absurdity.

perhaps some day we shall accustom ourselves, even from the logician's point of view, to get along without the little "one" (to which the worthy old "ego" has refined itself).

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it.

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topics: language, naming, and meaning · perception and the senses · reason and the intellect

Beyond Good and Evil · Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche · 1885