On Truth And Lies In A Nonmoral Sense Analysis
“Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing” (Nietzsche, “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense” L.10). There is no better way to begin this paper, for all the concepts that I write down are inherently trivial and hold no cosmological significance. The inevitable extinction of consciousness is impartial to this expression of my collective synapses. I hope that this seemingly morbid understanding of actual reality is wholly understood and accepted. For it is the only logical conclusion (based on my current understanding) when analyzing the concepts of rationality and how they translate into morality and
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Nietzsche says “The drive toward the formation of metaphors (our societal concept of truth) is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought, for one would thereby dispense with man himself” (Nietzsche, “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense” L.180). He explains that this drive to create a foundation of truth, in order to give our inconsequential existence an undeniable and reasonable sound purpose. We will go on to explain why he refers to our understood truths, scornfully as “metaphors”, but we must understand that this search exists, and will continue to do so for as long as man strives for purpose, however baseless and unsound that purpose may …show more content…
He falls into the same category as most other metaphysical philosophers who claim that there exist principles that are universalizable. Each have their own grounding. Jeremy Bentham the father utilitarianism, founded on the physiological fact that “Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.” (Bentham, “An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation” 1.1). (Even Bentham agrees that we are inherently faulty, as he says “...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency” (Bentham, “An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation” 1.13). Our moral obligation is then to maximize pleasure and minimize pain. (I will only use utilitarianism as an example, for its philosophy seems to have a clear foundation. Though I am really challenging all metaphysical philosophies that attempt to claim an objective foundation.) All of these moral theories that I have mentioned (and any other moral theory that is based on human judgements) are refutable for, and false, for the do not fit the bill of “synthetic a
Nietzsche says “The drive toward the formation of metaphors (our societal concept of truth) is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought, for one would thereby dispense with man himself” (Nietzsche, “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense” L.180). He explains that this drive to create a foundation of truth, in order to give our inconsequential existence an undeniable and reasonable sound purpose. We will go on to explain why he refers to our understood truths, scornfully as “metaphors”, but we must understand that this search exists, and will continue to do so for as long as man strives for purpose, however baseless and unsound that purpose may …show more content…
He falls into the same category as most other metaphysical philosophers who claim that there exist principles that are universalizable. Each have their own grounding. Jeremy Bentham the father utilitarianism, founded on the physiological fact that “Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.” (Bentham, “An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation” 1.1). (Even Bentham agrees that we are inherently faulty, as he says “...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency” (Bentham, “An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation” 1.13). Our moral obligation is then to maximize pleasure and minimize pain. (I will only use utilitarianism as an example, for its philosophy seems to have a clear foundation. Though I am really challenging all metaphysical philosophies that attempt to claim an objective foundation.) All of these moral theories that I have mentioned (and any other moral theory that is based on human judgements) are refutable for, and false, for the do not fit the bill of “synthetic a