The value of error, Nietzsche.

 The value of error, Nietzsche.


Why do we think 'truth' is more valuable than 'error' or 'imaginary', and 'fixed' more valuable than 'indeterminate'?


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For living things, grasping what is true and what is certain is an important survival condition. However, when it comes to the preservation and strengthening of life, 'error' is as precious as 'truth'. This is a unique feature of Nietzsche's philosophy. Nietzsche teaches the value of error as much as the value of truth.


Nietzsche says that pointing out the 'error of judgment' does not constitute a 'objection against judgment'. Even if a certain judgment was 'error', it means that it is not a worthless judgment. Rather, when it comes to survival, we benefit from error.


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Since no dust is the same in the world, to accept 'identity', which is the most basic of logic, we need eyes that 'roughly' see things. For example, when we roughly omit the differences between people, we can group them all together and say 'human'. That is why we see the forest. You have to look at the trees and pass through to see the forest. It is also a matter of survival. If there is a species that recognizes the 'dead and alive mushroom' and 'same kind' mushroom that is completely 'different' from what they ate yesterday, their chances of survival will be low. In other words, a race that strictly interprets identity and difference is difficult to survive. Therefore, 'logical animals' can survive through 'irrationality' to some extent, and 'logical' presupposes 'irrational' to some extent.



Nietzsche says the same applies to the concepts of 'force', 'object', 'cause and effect', and 'motion and rest', which are the means by which we perceive the world. The concepts themselves are all unprovable, but we cannot live without them. In other words, such concepts are the conditions of our life. We perceive the world through them and live based on that perception.


The 'truth' itself can be "the kind of folly we need... to preserve ourselves." If you understand the saying that life requires error and folly, so that "there are errors in the conditions of life," says Nietzsche, that alone can put you on the 'beyond side of good and evil'.



“To give up wrong judgment is to give up life, to deny life. To use untruth as a condition of life. Of course, this is a dangerous way of resisting habitual values. Philosophy by itself already stands on the other side of good and evil."

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