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Why did Nietzsche dislike Kant and his epistemology so much?
So many books where Nietzsche criticizes Kant and express his contempt about the "categorical imperative" for example in "Beyond Good and Evil":
The spectacle of the Tartuffery of old Kant, ...
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Nietzche quoting Descartes... without source
In the Will to Power Nietzche quotes Descartes
omne illud verum est, quod clare et distincte percipitur
However I cannot find the quoted source. Can anyone identify it?
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What is Nietzsche's source of immediate knowledge in Beyond Good and Evil?
In Beyond Good and Evil, Section 16, Nietzsche uses "immediate certainties" in quotation marks. Who and from where is Nietzsche quoting this, or is he using the quotations marks to speak ironically? ...
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The will to truth or the will to untruth
I have begun reading Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil and have been sitting with his very first section of the book, where he opens with a series of questions pertaining to the will to truth. He asks ...
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Popper, Nietzsche and knowledge
In many works of Karl Popper, he says, quoting Xenophanes, that all human knowledge is only conjectural, that modern science will never produce a true knowledge.
The german philosopher, Friedrich ...
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What is science in the 'gay science'?
First, I haven't read the book; but have come across some excerpts in one of Foucaults essays.
It occurs to me that given Nietszches famous antipathy to Christianity, and that Adam/Eve were evicted ...
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Did Friedrich Nietzsche believe in "the truth"?
It is well known that Friedrich Nietzsche was very condemnatory of the objective truth, however, while analyzing his words, it is difficult to ascertain whether or not he believes in the truth at all.
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Isn't Nietzsche's Übermensch idea self-contradictory?
Doesn't Nietzsche's Übermensch contradicts itself in that understanding everything would enable propagation of that understanding?
Wouldn't Nietzsche's Übermensch eventually fully understand how the ...
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What does Nietzsche mean by "there are no facts, only interpretations"?
I came across this philosophical thought.
There are no facts, only interpretations
written by Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900). As translated from Notebooks, Summer 1886 – Fall 1887, in The Portable ...
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