Single Idea 24145

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

Full Idea

The entire cognitive mechanism is a mechanism of abstraction and simplification - not aimed at knowing, but taking control of things.

Gist of Idea

Mind is a mechanism of abstraction and simplification, aimed at control

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1884-85 [1884], 26[061])

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from 1884-85 (v 15)', ed/tr. Loeb,P.S./Tinsley,D.F. [Stanford 2022], p.148


A Reaction

It is my view that we can explain our metaphysics in this way, though I am more realist than Nietzsche, because I think the world has created these capacities within us, so they fit the world. To control, you must know.