This entry may serve as an
illustration of the point made in the earlier entry Digging, Mining, Undermining.
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Nietzsche the irrationalist. I
love it. Where else could irrationalism be better rationalized than in the
following two aphoristic entries of his Morgenröte?---
99. WHEREIN
WE ARE ALL IRRATIONAL. We still continue to draw conclusions from judgments
that we consider as false, or doctrines in which we no longer believe, through
our feelings.
123. REASON. How did reason come into the world? As is only
proper, in an irrational manner: that is, by
accident. We shall have to guess at
this accident as a riddle.
In the first aphorism, he says
that are allegedly rational judgments are inevitably affected by our irrational
feelings. This is first-rate psychology! By the same token, all philosophy,
even the most rationalistic, is also subjective and ergo irrational.
As for the second aphorism (I
have purposely juxtaposed them in this manner), Nietzsche mentions a riddle here, and I will clarify this
as a logical riddle, whose answer can be expressed in the following logical
form:
From Morgenröte #99 follows Morgenröte 123.
I am sure that the conundrum is
no longer a riddle, when thus formally expressed.
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