Intentions and deeds (Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil)

Question 1

What are “immediate certainties”?

Answer 1

Immediate access to “absolute knowledge” and “thing in itself”.

Question 2

What are the criticisms against the “immediate certainties”?

Answer 2

We don’t have immediate access to anything, because it is a process of thinking.

Question 3

What does interpretation is falsification mean?

Answer 3

1. We should say: “Not I think/want, but “it” thinks/wants”
2. Even saying “it” is saying too much: even this “it” contains an interpretation of the process and doesn’t belong to the process
3. This is metaphysics: thinking is an activity.

Question 4

What does “a thought comes when ‘it’ wants, and not when ‘I’ want” (17) mean?

Answer 4

Thoughts dont’ come from the “I”, we experience the thoughts that happen.

Question 5

Why is willing more complicated than we usually assume, what parts are involved in his view?

Answer 5

Because there are lots of parts to choosing to do something.

Question 6

Our intentions define our actions and our actions define our intentions.