July 14, 2012
Meaning of 'knowledge': here, as with 'good' or 'beautiful', the concept is to be taken in a strict and narrowly anthropocentric and biological sense. For a particular species to survive - and grow in power - its conception of reality must be able to encompass enough of what's calculable and constant to construct on this basis a schema for its behavior. Usefulness for preservation, and not some abstract and theoretical need not to be deceived, is what motivates the development of the organs of knowledge...they develop in such a way that their capacity to observe suffices for our preservation. In other words: the measure of the will to know depends on the measure of the growth in the species' will to power: a species seizes that much reality in order to become master of it, to take it into service.
Nietzsche - Writings from the Late Notebooks
Posted by amin at July 14, 2012 2:30 PM