Single Idea 18321

[catalogued under 22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / c. Life]

Full Idea

One would have to be situated outside life ....[and yet know it thoroughly] ....to be permitted to touch on the problem of the value of life at all.

Gist of Idea

To evaluate life one must know it, but also be situated outside of it

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols [1889], 4.5)

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1972], p.45


A Reaction

Can practising artists question the value of their art? The whole point of objectivity is that we can mentally step 'outside' of something, without actually withdrawing from it.