Prejudice and Motivational Analysis

Prejudice and Motivational Analysis

• Introduction of 'Will to truth' – 1^st philosophical prejudice. Central impulse which drives philosophers.

• Faith in antithetical values - philosophers have attempted to show that valued/unvalued things are antithetical. Eg. Kantian Ethics

• Consciousness has no role in thinking – is secretly directed … into definite channels by his instincts'

• Instincts are physiological demands for the preservation of a particular kind of life. So There's a link between what a philosophers thinks, and the philsopher himself.

• 'Behind all logic, too … there are value judgements'

• This links to Will to truth. Nietzsche hinted that truth is somehow linked to its opposite – the subjective, individual view of the world...

• So, here Nietzsche is arguing that there is no objective truth; the truth philosophy deals with is merely an extension of subjective truth – this is his doctrine of perspectivism

• The majority of philosophers have tried to convince others that their subjective truth, based on instinct, is in fact objective.

• We must 'recognise untruth as a condition of life', and that 'to renounce false judgements would be to renounce life'.

• We don't object to judgements because they are false - value them depending on how far they are 'species preserving'.

• In seeking to establish and guarantee…