Truth, Consciousness, and the Uniqueness of Individual Experience and Action - Alexander Nehamas (22.09.2016 - Weimar)

18:00 Vortrag
Schiller-Museum, Vortragsraum

Truth, Consciousness, and the Uniqueness of Individual Experience and Action

Alexander Nehamas. Friedrich Nietzsche on Truth and Human Action

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But we are not yet finished with the problems of truth. That is because Nietzsche sometimes writes that it is impossible to know the exact nature of our own experiences and actions because every attempt to say what they are, necessarily expressed in language as it is, misrepresents them. That is, language can give no more than a generic description of any action and so suppresses the uniqueness of our individual experiences and doings and depends on an arbitrary specification of their beginnings and ends, of their causes and effects. But if language distorts our experience, on which all our knowledge is based, Nietzsche may accept »the Falsification Thesis« after all. We will have to address the texts where such views appear in order to see whether we are justified in attributing to Nietzsche such an epistemological nihilism.

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