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The human organism operates aristocratically -- the drives are the highest and most powerful structures within the organism, and they bind together organs to create higher organs. Organs are functions, then, of drives.
Jul 11, 2016 10:10AM
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Nietzsche holds a (surprisingly though perhaps unintentionally) teleological account of the organism through perfection (a common word in evolutionary bio at the time), which entails greater structural complexity and more power. But this position is a perfection within the type of organism, so that there's a kind of species fixity here. What's strange is that just a year or two later, he argues against fixity
Jul 11, 2016 10:10AM
Nietzsche, Biology and Metaphor


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