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| A thougth comes when 'it' wants, not when 'I' want by F Nietzsche 05/08/2003, 3:45pm PDT | ||||
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| It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up till now has consisted of - namely, the confession of its originator, and a species of involuntary and unconscious autobiography; and moreover that the moral (or immoral) purpose in every philosophy has constituted the true vital germ out of which the entire plant has always grown. To explain how a philosopher's most remote metaphysical assertions have actually been arrived at, it is always well (and wise) to first ask oneself: "What morality do they (or does he) aim at?" Accordingly, I do not believe that an "impulse to knowledge" is the father of philosophy; but that another impulse, here as elsewhere, has only made use of knowledge (and mistaken knowledge!) as an instrument. But whoever considers the fundamental impulses of man with a view to determining how far they may have here acted as inspiring genii (or as demons and cobolds), will find that they have all practised philosophy at one time or another, and that each one of them would have been only too glad to look upon itself as the ultimate end of existence and the legitimate lord over all the other impulses. For every impulse is imperious, and as such, attempts to philosophise. To be sure, in the case of scholars, in the case of really scientific men it may be otherwise - "better," if you will; there there may really be such a thing as an "impulse to knowledge," some kind of small, independent clockwork, which, when well wound up, works away industriously to that end, without the rest of the scholarly impulses taking any material part therein. The actual "interests" of the scholar, therefore, are generally in quite another direction - in the family, perhaps, or in money-making, or in politics; it is, in fact, almost indifferent at what point of research his little machine is placed, and whether the hopeful young worker becomes a good philologist, a mushroom specialist, or a chemist; he is not characterised by becoming this or that. In the philosopher, on the contrary, there is absolutely nothing impersonal, and above all, his morality furnishes a decided and decisive testimony as to who he is, - that is to say, in what order the deepest impulses of his nature stand to each other. (BGE, 6) | ||||
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(NT) by 05/07/2003, 2:48am PDT Just the opinion of a bystander . . . by 05/07/2003, 1:30pm PDT Re: This is one long motherfucker... by 05/07/2003, 10:38pm PDT Re: This is one long motherfucker... by 05/08/2003, 2:39pm PDT A thougth comes when 'it' wants, not when 'I' want by 05/08/2003, 3:45pm PDT Re: This is one last motherfucker... by 05/08/2003, 11:42pm PDT According to nature by 05/04/2003, 4:57pm PDT I often lack a sense of irony, or perhaps I'm just wilfully blind... by 05/06/2003, 2:11am PDT Ab initio by 05/05/2003, 6:43pm PDT Re: Ab initio by 05/06/2003, 5:09pm PDT Re: Ab initio by 05/07/2003, 2:21am PDT Incorrect by 05/07/2003, 10:59am PDT Re: Incorrect by 05/08/2003, 2:01pm PDT Re: Incorrect by 05/08/2003, 10:21pm PDT Pre-emptive strike by 05/08/2003, 10:36pm PDT Re: Pre-emptive strike by 05/08/2003, 11:04pm PDT Re: Pre-emptive strike by 05/08/2003, 11:09pm PDT Why you are a fag. by 05/07/2003, 3:35pm PDT Re: Ab initio by 05/07/2003, 2:25am PDT Re: Ab initio by 05/07/2003, 4:13pm PDT Re: Ab initio by 05/08/2003, 2:16pm PDT Re: Ab initio by 05/08/2003, 3:32pm PDT Re: Ab initio by 05/08/2003, 7:12pm PDT Re: Ab initio redux by 05/08/2003, 8:51pm PDT Maybe because you take yourself way too seriously? NT by 05/08/2003, 9:35pm PDT Possibly. Any other theories? NT by 05/08/2003, 10:17pm PDT Just facts, ma'am. NT by 05/08/2003, 10:19pm PDT You've got a lot of repressed feelings, don't you, Friday? by 05/08/2003, 10:33pm PDT Re: You're forgetting the very, very obvious by 05/03/2003, 7:31pm PDT Fine by 05/03/2003, 8:24pm PDT Re: Fine by 05/04/2003, 2:07am PDT What he said by 05/04/2003, 3:39am PDT Yeah, who needs social change when THE FUCKING LAWN'S NOT PATTERNED RIGHT!!! NT by 05/04/2003, 12:22pm PDT landscaping? you lost me there NT by 05/04/2003, 1:47pm PDT Re: Fine by 05/04/2003, 10:09am PDT Psh! Economics is SOFT Science. For pussies. NT by 05/04/2003, 12:15pm PDT Diotallevi? NT by 05/03/2003, 7:07pm PDT Mischief Maker? NT by 05/03/2003, 7:30pm PDT Stepto? NT by 05/03/2003, 8:15pm PDT Umberto? NT by 05/04/2003, 2:08am PDT Me? NT by 05/06/2003, 5:25pm PDT Confusing NT response to some post way above? NT by 05/04/2003, 2:00am PDT Nope by 05/05/2003, 11:16pm PDT Re: Also, by 05/03/2003, 5:14pm PDT Re: Also, by 05/03/2003, 5:33pm PDT 40 years: No Vietnam. NT by 05/03/2003, 5:44pm PDT ?? by 05/03/2003, 6:33pm PDT ...and my shoes? Aren't you going to mock my shoes? by 05/03/2003, 6:46pm PDT Re: Also, by 05/03/2003, 5:43pm PDT big deal by 05/03/2003, 8:01pm PDT Re: big deal by 05/03/2003, 8:19pm PDT Re: big deal by 05/03/2003, 9:18pm PDT The fuck? by 05/04/2003, 3:04am PDT Re: The fuck? by 05/04/2003, 12:09pm PDT INC is talking aboot California. Please stop the hatin' on me. NT by 05/03/2003, 8:43pm PDT You're right. by 05/04/2003, 3:22pm PDT Dear Idiot: by 05/05/2003, 12:57am PDT Aiding and abetting: The United States hates civil liberties across the world! by 05/05/2003, 1:24am PDT Somebody's disinforming someone. by 05/05/2003, 12:53pm PDT OH! those beeeeuuuutiful peopaaahhh! by 05/05/2003, 2:04am PDT Way to lose an argument, Ari by 05/05/2003, 12:41pm PDT Dear Fucktard by 05/07/2003, 2:14am PDT Three days' wait and that's all I get? by 05/07/2003, 1:01pm PDT re:Ex-Texan by 05/07/2003, 1:55pm PDT Florida, actually by 05/07/2003, 3:16pm PDT From me? Yeah. It's a fair assessment of the value of your contributions. NT by 05/08/2003, 2:42pm PDT |
