from fred nietzsche
This is really all about me..
4 Errors by Fred Nietzsche
1. The Error of Confusing Cause and Effect.
Example: Live a long and happy life eating the frugal Cornaro diet!
Error: Cornaro thought that his diet was the cause ofhis long life. Actually, his particular physical constitution was the cause of his long life *and* his frugal diet. Others eating this diet might not fare so well! But this erroneous reasoning applies equally well to questions of religion and morality: think ofthe popular contention among the religious that if people were not religious, they would have no reason to act morally -- as if moral codes were the cause of morality.
2. The Error of False Causality.
Example: I am the cause of my thoughts/behaviors. I attribute motives to others as the reasons they act as they do.
Error: The ego is a phantom, called up by reason to account for what occurs -- to make the accounting workout. We created the world of inner causality, will,and motives as players in a story which makes sense,and which works in the most important functional sense as a tool whereby we interact successfully with others... but this is no proof that it is so.
3. The Error of Imaginary Causes.
Example: When just waking up from a dream, a noise will often get incorporated into the dream. A loud bang becomes something that you dropped in your dream,for example.
Error: Your psyche must have caught the sound and held onto it until it could incorporate it into the story of your dream -- until it could make sense of it. But we do this when waking, too. We often make up causes(stories) for what we must incorporate into the story of our lives. Religion could be thought of as part of this impulse to make sense of things. Think of the explanations of why bad things happen to good people.
4. The Error of Free Will.
Example: You committed this crime, therefore you must pay because you could have done otherwise. You didn't have to be a criminal.
Error: Free will is the apologia of the psychology of punishment. We believe you to be free in order to hold you guilty. This ignores the actual complexities of life and each person's inner complexity. It makes possible Sin and Hell, and thereby Forgiveness and Heaven.
4 Errors by Fred Nietzsche
1. The Error of Confusing Cause and Effect.
Example: Live a long and happy life eating the frugal Cornaro diet!
Error: Cornaro thought that his diet was the cause ofhis long life. Actually, his particular physical constitution was the cause of his long life *and* his frugal diet. Others eating this diet might not fare so well! But this erroneous reasoning applies equally well to questions of religion and morality: think ofthe popular contention among the religious that if people were not religious, they would have no reason to act morally -- as if moral codes were the cause of morality.
2. The Error of False Causality.
Example: I am the cause of my thoughts/behaviors. I attribute motives to others as the reasons they act as they do.
Error: The ego is a phantom, called up by reason to account for what occurs -- to make the accounting workout. We created the world of inner causality, will,and motives as players in a story which makes sense,and which works in the most important functional sense as a tool whereby we interact successfully with others... but this is no proof that it is so.
3. The Error of Imaginary Causes.
Example: When just waking up from a dream, a noise will often get incorporated into the dream. A loud bang becomes something that you dropped in your dream,for example.
Error: Your psyche must have caught the sound and held onto it until it could incorporate it into the story of your dream -- until it could make sense of it. But we do this when waking, too. We often make up causes(stories) for what we must incorporate into the story of our lives. Religion could be thought of as part of this impulse to make sense of things. Think of the explanations of why bad things happen to good people.
4. The Error of Free Will.
Example: You committed this crime, therefore you must pay because you could have done otherwise. You didn't have to be a criminal.
Error: Free will is the apologia of the psychology of punishment. We believe you to be free in order to hold you guilty. This ignores the actual complexities of life and each person's inner complexity. It makes possible Sin and Hell, and thereby Forgiveness and Heaven.
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posted by AristoNeeks | 3:27 pm
Seen on a restroom wall:
"God is dead"--Nietzsche.
"Nietzsche is dead"--God.
This is the smartest writing I've read all night and I've been reading too much. Nietche is god. God is dead. But we speak of both, so they live on. Number 4 is especially telling.
Great post.