Ideas from 'Unpublished Notebooks 1882-84' by Friedrich Nietzsche [1883], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Fragments from the period of 'Zarathustra' (v 14)' by Nietzsche,Friedrich (ed/tr Loeb/Tinsley) [Stanford 2019,978-1-5036-0752-1]].

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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 3. Value of Truth

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The pain in truth is when it destroys a belief

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 8. Subjective Truth

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We don't create logic, time and space! The mind obeys laws because they are true

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / i. Deflating being

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To think about being we must have an opinion about what it is

12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 4. Memory

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There is no proof that we forget things - only that we can't recall

16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 4. Denial of the Self

24099

We contain many minds, which fight for the 'I' of the mind

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 1. Thought

24102

Thoughts are signs (just as words are)

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

24120

Great orators lead their arguments, rather than following them

19. Language / F. Communication / 5. Pragmatics / b. Implicature

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The pragmatics of language is more comprehensible than the meaning

20. Action / A. Definition of Action / 1. Action Theory

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Actions are just a release of force. They seize on something, which becomes the purpose

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act

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Drives make us feel non-feelings; Will is the effect of those feelings

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / d. Weakness of will

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We need lower and higher drives, but they must be under firm control

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 2. Acting on Beliefs / a. Acting on beliefs

24113

Our motives don't explain our actions

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

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Greeks might see modern analysis of what is human as impious

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Once a drive controls the intellect, it rules, and sets the goals

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / d. Subjective value

24101

We always assign values, but we may not value those values

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness

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Happiness is the active equilibrium of our drives

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / c. Particularism

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Actual morality is more complicated and subtle than theory (which gets paralysed)

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / i. Absolute virtues

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Some things we would never do, even for the highest ideals

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / j. Unity of virtue

24103

You should not want too many virtues; one is enough

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 1. Utilitarianism

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Talk of 'utility' presupposes that what is useful to people has been defined

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 2. Nihilism

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My eternal recurrence is opposed to feeling fragmented and imperfect

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 8. Eternal Recurrence

24119

The eternal return of wastefulness is a terrible thought

25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 1. Grounds of equality

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Justice says people are not equal, and should become increasingly unequal

25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 3. Punishment / a. Right to punish

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Reasons that justify punishment can also justify the crime

25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 3. Punishment / b. Retribution for crime

24118

Do away with punishment. Counter-retribution is as bad as the crime

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / e. Peace

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If you don't want war, remove your borders; but you set up borders because you want war

27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 2. Space

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Unlike time, space is subjective. Empty space was assumed, but it doesn't exist

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 2. Life

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Life is forces conjoined by nutrition, to produce resistance, arrangement and value