Ideas from 'Unpublished Notebooks 1881-82' by Friedrich Nietzsche [1882], by Theme Structure
[found in 'The Joyful Science, and 1881-82 fragments (v 6)' by Nietzsche,Friedrich (ed/tr Del Caro,Adrian) [Stanford 2023,978-1-5036-3232-5]].
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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 5. Objectivity
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Seeing with other eyes is more egoism, but exploring other perspectives leads to objectivity
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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 3. Value of Truth
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I tell the truth, even if it is repulsive
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The pain in truth is when it destroys a belief
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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 8. Subjective Truth
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We don't create logic, time and space! The mind obeys laws because they are true
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / i. Deflating being
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To think about being we must have an opinion about what it is
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects
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Essences are fictions needed for beings who represent things
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12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 4. Memory
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There is no proof that we forget things - only that we can't recall
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15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 5. Unity of Mind
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Our inclinations would not conflict if we were a unity; we imagine unity for our multiplicity
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16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 4. Denial of the Self
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We contain many minds, which fight for the 'I' of the mind
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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 1. Thought
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Thoughts are signs (just as words are)
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19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric
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Great orators lead their arguments, rather than following them
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19. Language / F. Communication / 5. Pragmatics / b. Implicature
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The pragmatics of language is more comprehensible than the meaning
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20. Action / A. Definition of Action / 1. Action Theory
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Actions are just a release of force. They seize on something, which becomes the purpose
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20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act
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Drives make us feel non-feelings; Will is the effect of those feelings
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20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / d. Weakness of will
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We need lower and higher drives, but they must be under firm control
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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 2. Acting on Beliefs / a. Acting on beliefs
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Our motives don't explain our actions
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21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 6. The Sublime
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People who miss beauty seek the sublime, where even the ugly shows its 'beauty'
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The sublimity of nature which dwarfs us was a human creation
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
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We can aspire to greatness by creating new functions for ourselves
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Greeks might see modern analysis of what is human as impious
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Once a drive controls the intellect, it rules, and sets the goals
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / c. Objective value
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For absolute morality a goal for mankind is needed
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / d. Subjective value
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We always assign values, but we may not value those values
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism
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Humans are vividly aware of short-term effects, and almost ignorant of the long-term ones
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness
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Happiness is the active equilibrium of our drives
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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / c. Particularism
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Actual morality is more complicated and subtle than theory (which gets paralysed)
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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / i. Absolute virtues
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Some things we would never do, even for the highest ideals
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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / j. Unity of virtue
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You should not want too many virtues; one is enough
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23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 1. Utilitarianism
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Talk of 'utility' presupposes that what is useful to people has been defined
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23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 1. Existentialism
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The goal is to settle human beings, like other animals, but humans are still changeable
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23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 2. Nihilism
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My eternal recurrence is opposed to feeling fragmented and imperfect
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23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 8. Eternal Recurrence
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See our present lives as eternal! Religions see it as fleeting, and aim at some different life
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The eternal return of wastefulness is a terrible thought
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25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 1. Grounds of equality
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Justice says people are not equal, and should become increasingly unequal
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25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 3. Punishment / a. Right to punish
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Reasons that justify punishment can also justify the crime
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25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 3. Punishment / b. Retribution for crime
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Do away with punishment. Counter-retribution is as bad as the crime
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25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / e. Peace
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If you don't want war, remove your borders; but you set up borders because you want war
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25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / d. Study of history
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Our growth is too subtle to perceive, and long events are too slow for us to grasp
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27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 2. Space
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Unlike time, space is subjective. Empty space was assumed, but it doesn't exist
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27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 2. Life
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Life is forces conjoined by nutrition, to produce resistance, arrangement and value
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