
38: The Genius of the Species
The Nietzsche Podcast
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Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Unconscious
The whole of life would be possible without, as it were, seeing itself in a mirror. He argues that consciousness is what allows us to think or to feel or to will. His proof of this is perhaps the more important part of the passage. The greater part of our intellectual life is even hidden from us and not brought into conscious reflection.
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