Ideas from 'Unpublished Notebooks 1885-86' by Friedrich Nietzsche [1886], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Fragments from 1885-86 (v 16)' by Nietzsche,Friedrich (ed/tr Del Caro,Adrian) [Stanford 2020,978-1-5036-0872-6]].

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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

23183

Different abilities are needed for living in an incomplete and undogmatic system

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 4. Conceptual Analysis

23188

Bad writers use shapeless floating splotches of concepts

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 3. Hermeneutics

23212

A text has many interpretations, but no 'correct' one

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

23199

What is the search for truth if it isn't moral?

23202

Like all philosophers, I love truth

5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 1. Ontology of Logic

23196

Logic is a fiction, which invents the view that one thought causes another

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / a. Numbers

23186

Numbers enable us to manage the world - to the limits of counting

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events

23211

Events are just interpretations of groups of appearances

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 5. Cogito Critique

23201

The 'I' does not think; it is a construction of thinking, like other useful abstractions

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism

23207

Appearance is the sole reality of things, to which all predicates refer

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

23197

Memory is essential, and is only possible by means of abbreviation signs

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / c. Coherentism critique

23206

Schematic minds think thoughts are truer if they slot into a scheme

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 1. Relativism

23209

Each of our personal drives has its own perspective

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 1. Mind / b. Purpose of mind

23184

The mind is a simplifying apparatus

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / f. Higher-order thought

23190

Consciousness is our awareness of our own mental life

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 1. Faculties

23191

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

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 10. Conatus/Striving

23213

The greatest drive of life is to discharge strength, rather than preservation

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism

23210

That all events are necessary does not mean they are compelled

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 1. Concepts / a. Nature of concepts

23192

Concepts don’t match one thing, but many things a little bit

23189

Concepts are rough groups of simultaneous sensations

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / a. Origin of concepts

23187

Whatever their origin, concepts survive by being useful

19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions

23205

Thought starts as ambiguity, in need of interpretation and narrowing

21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 1. Aesthetics

23198

Aesthetics can be more basic than morality, in our pleasure in certain patterns of experience

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / f. Übermensch

23208

Caesar and Napoleon point to the future, when they pursue their task regardless of human sacrifice

23193

Napoleon was very focused, and rightly ignored compassion

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 2. Nihilism

23214

For the strongest people, nihilism gives you wings!

24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 1. Purpose of a State

23203

The great question is approaching, of how to govern the earth as a whole

24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 2. Leaders / d. Elites

23200

The controlling morality of aristocracy is the desire to resemble their ancestors

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 14. Nationalism

23194

People feel united as a nation by one language, but then want a common ancestry and history

25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 4. Property rights

23204

To be someone you need property, and wanting more is healthy

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature

23195

Laws of nature are actually formulas of power relations

27. Natural Reality / F. Chemistry / 1. Chemistry

23185

In chemistry every substance pushes, and thus creates new substances