![]() And he poked fun at pretty much every philosopher for secretly smuggling prejudices into their philosophies. ![]() It’s impossible to do philosophy without making assumptions.Įver since the seventeenth-century French philosopher René Descartes proclaimed “I think, therefore I am,” much of Western philosophy has been obsessed with beginning the philosophical process from “first principles” – that is, doing philosophy without taking any unwarranted assumptions for granted.Īs we’ll see, Nietzsche cast doubt on the idea that it’s even possible for a philosophy to avoid presupposing anything.
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