PHIL 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Rationality, Dialectic, Smoke Screen
24 Oct 2016
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Reason is good and body and everything associated with it is evil. Rationality of any price at the expense of the senses was made of self deception: a decitant can only use decitant ways to fight decidence (cid:862)reaso(cid:374) i(cid:374) philosophy(cid:863) Par(cid:373)e(cid:374)ides: (cid:862)(cid:449)hat is, does (cid:374)ot (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)e; (cid:449)hat (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)e, is (cid:374)ot(cid:863) Heraclitus: being and permanence are the mere appearance while change and multiplicity are reality. Nietzs(cid:272)he says the se(cid:374)ses do(cid:374)"t lie; at least as the se(cid:374)ses sho(cid:449) (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)i(cid:374)g, (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge, passing away (flux) Is reason that tells the lies about being and permanence. Nietzsche apparent world (flux, change) is the real world; being is the fake world made up by reason. Nietzsche argues the nose requires our respect and gratitude as it is the greatest aspects of the senses. Philosophers mistake what is last as first and what is first as last. All concepts are strictly empirical in origin: concepts are lower to higher (from senses)
