From: "Ninghijzhinda" <ninghijzhinda-AT-poczta.wp.pl>
Subject: Nietzsche's Epistomology and the Truth idea.
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 21:36:04 +0100


Welcome!

Firstly, I have to say, English isn't my native language, so I ask You for
some indulgence.

on Thu, 27 Jan 2000 12:48:42 -0600
Dan wrote:

>What do other people in this discussion think about N and his relation to
>Metaphysics
>Ethics
>Morality
>Epistemology
>and other large philosophical topics?
>I will post more of my personal opinion on these topics in greater detail
>later today.

Well...as I'm the most interested in the Nietzsche's Epistemology nowdays
 I've just finished my work about the truth idea in His philosophy), I'll try
to write something interesting on this topis. ( I'd send you some parts of my
work,but unfortunatelly, its in my mother tongue).

 According to my interpretation of Nietzsche's works, N. generally was
sceptical, he even wrote something like this ( I don't remember exectly those
words) " Everything what could be thought about , is surely false" - In my
opinion, he meaned that we, people, have no possibility of getting the sure
knowledge about the world. Our acknowledgement is always a simplification and
mediatization of the reality. For example - check his words about the time and
teleology  in Gaya Scienza, aforism 112. He wrote there that our limited
perception of the reality forces us to notice such things as  reasons,
effects and aims. We see the "reason" and the "effect" only because we
separate them as we aren't able to see "millions of actions" taking place
between the reason and the effect. The reality, in his opinion is continuum,
and there is no possibility of finding entity parts of it.
  For him, it's obvious that we also aren't able to exchange our knowledge
with the others -  contents are unpronounceable - try for example  explain the
blind what the colour is.
  His epistomology is strongly connected with his model of the Existence, The
Will to the Power - the world as numberous, blind forces going against each
others; Heraclit's idea of the Existance as the Becoming also makes our
acknowledgement false, because all our visions of world have to be stabil
systems, and while we thing about something, it becomes  different.
  Nietzsche also polemizes with Acvinata, who wrote: "Veritas est adequatio
intellectus et rei" - N. wrote that we aren't able to get an adequate ( in the
sence: excellent) knowledge about anything, because it's to complicated for us
to comprise all components. Think: we don't even know what the matter is...

I have to finish now.( lack of time)

Sincerelly,
Rafal Urbaniak





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