Friday, January 14, 2022
Nietzsche's criticism of Descartes
The critique of Descartes by Nietzsche:
"It doesn't follow that just because there are thoughts there must be a thinker all that follows is that because there are thoughts therefore there are thoughts."
The Descartes mode of I think therefore I am always represents a paradigm shift. One individuals consciousness shifts and so goes the rest of the community shifts with that shift such that the thinker is indistinguishable from a random collection of thoughts which may or may not be reliable to any one particular person.
The end result of Descartes is a changed set of cultural facts with the same set of cultural problems of inequity.
The problem of Descartes is a changed set of old trampled people who distinguish themselves from old masters by having different thoughts that changes the wheel of fortune but does nothing to change or alter the problematic circumstances.
Nietzsche can't be understood apart from his individual life.
His father dedicated his life to God and died from brain problems. The physical body seemed to demonstrate final veto on the power of the soul.
Dedication to God just isn't enough.
Most of Nietzsche's work to me seems to be I love therefore I am. God's judgement against the world was it's inability to allow love and friendship and unless that problem is harmonized everything would be destroyed and that's bigger than who's thoughts shape the world.
The ideal for the true overman or woman is to love in a simple manner that is beyond the normative thoughts of the wheel of fortune, which is the true problem and the solution. Simple friendships between men and women are more profound than which thoughts are better or worse for society that only changes the shape of problems but doesn't solve any of the problems.
I exist therefore I exist is the only thing that allows for friendship because the promotion of thoughts at the expense of natural evolution is the disguise that prevents natural solutions. If I exist therefore I exist is the solution, it allows for the natural embryonic potential to be what it is while I preserve my right to exist by continuing to exist.
Descartes thoughts of slave thoughts that undermine the master thoughts only change the facts of the problem but leaves the problems fundamentally unaltered unless the thought problems are ignored completely so that nature can have it's natural potential allowed to just be while I can continue to exist as my natural human self. That means that nature allows for friendship but only the imposition of thoughts prevents it. People hurt themselves trying to get in the way of their own grace, but because I exist therefore I exist in natural grace of nature.
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