Single Idea 24144

[catalogued under 16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 3. Limits of Introspection]

Full Idea

A cognitive mechanism that wants to know itself!! We definitely should have moved beyond this absurd goal! (The stomach that consumes itself! -)

Gist of Idea

A cognitive mechanism wanting to know itself is absurd!

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1884-85 [1884], 26[018])

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from 1884-85 (v 15)', ed/tr. Loeb,P.S./Tinsley,D.F. [Stanford 2022], p.139


A Reaction

We see his point, but Nietzsche learns a huge amount about himself by introspection. To know the Self is a cat chasing its tail. I don't have to leave England to study England.