Single Idea 23191

[catalogued under 15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 1. Faculties]

Full Idea

In our conscious intellect there must be an excluding drive that scares things away, a selecting one, which only permits certain facts to present themselves.

Gist of Idea

Minds have an excluding drive to scare things off, and a selecting one to filter facts

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1885-86 [1886], 34[131])

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from 1885-86 (v 16)', ed/tr. Del Caro,Adrian [Stanford 2020], p.37


A Reaction

I like this because he is endorsing the idea that philosophy needs faculties, which may not match the views of psychologists and neuroscientists. Quite nice to think of faculties as drives.

Related Idea

Idea 24105 Drives make us feel non-feelings; Will is the effect of those feelings [Nietzsche]