Single Idea 20242

[catalogued under 16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 2. Knowing the Self]

Full Idea

Only when the human being has finally attained knowledge of all things will he have known himself. For things are merely the boundaries of the human being.

Gist of Idea

Things are the boundaries of humanity, so all things must be known, for self-knowledge

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Dawn (Daybreak) [1881], 048)

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Dawn (Daybreak) (v 5)', ed/tr. Smith, Brittain [Stanford 2011], p.38


A Reaction

This seems to be a rather externalist view of the mind. If philosophy aims to disentangle mind from world then good knowledge of the world seems to be required.

Related Idea

Idea 2352 The job of the philosopher is to distinguish facts about the world from conventions [Putnam]