By Sarah Kofman
ISBN-10: 0804721866
ISBN-13: 9780804721868
The writer supplies not just a examining of Nietzsche's rules, yet a style for investigating his sort.
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So philosophy need attach no importance to any credit which appearance may be thought to enjoy. Clear consciousness, freed from the obstacles which it was prepared to create, the real world purged of any admixture of daydreams, are there for everyone. We are not called upon to analyse the act of attention as a passage from indistinctness to clarity, because the indistinctness is not there. Consciousness does not begin to exist until it sets limits to an object, and even the phantoms of ‘internal experience’ are possible only as things borrowed from external experience.
P. 354. On all these points see La Structure du Comportement, in particular pp. , 65 and ff. 3 Gelb, Die Farbenkonstanz der Sehdinge, p. 595. 4 The sensations are certainly artificial products, but not arbitrary ones, they are the last component wholes into which the natural structures can be decomposed by the “analytical attitude”. ’ Koffka, Psychologie, p. 548. 2 10 TRADITIONAL PREJUDICES AND THE RETURN TO PHENOMENA recognize a crystal as having a ‘regular’ shape without having, even tacitly, counted its sides.
Cf. La Structure du Comportement, Chap. III. 3 Koffka, Psychologie, pp. 530 and 549. Scheler, Die Wissenformen und die Gesellschaft, p. 412. Scheler, Die Wissenformen und die Gesellschaft, p. 397. ’ 2 Hering, Jaensch. 3Scheler, Die Wissenformen und die Gesellschaft, p. 412. 4 Cf. Wertheimer, Über das Denken der Naturvölker, in Drei Abhandlungen zur Gestahtheorie. 2 ‘ASSOCIATION’ AND THE ‘PROJECTION OF MEMORIES’ ONCE introduced, the notion of sensation distorts any analysis of perception. Already a ‘figure’ on a ‘background’ contains, as we have seen, much more than the qualities presented at a given time.
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