On the Significance of Critical-Intellectual Opinion (Or On the Deceptive Character of the World)

Štefan Jusko

E-LOGOS X:X  

I begin the essay by distinguishing sensory opinion, intellectual opinion, and critical-intellectual opinion as its basic framework, first examining the expressions of the image of the world as a whole (or the world as a whole) – expressions that do not properly belong to philosophy. What they stand for, however – namely the world of representations and the world of concepts – is essentially connected with philosophy. We cannot think the world as a whole as such, yet Nietzsche, through his critical philosophy, shows that the expression the world as a whole can be articulated by philosophical thought. He identified...