Nietzsche On Lying

In “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense”, Nietzsche seeks to explain why and how humankind has developed our own senses of truth and in the same vein, lies. He says that the process involves taking a stimuli and creating an image metaphor for it, and then a sound metaphor to it, which results in the creation of language. Then, the human brain categorizes the stimuli into certain categories and into different concepts that represent the total of unequal individualized objects and then rejects everything that the category is not as a lie. Nietzsche argues that the processes aforementioned are impervious by nature and completely illogical. The result is that we have created our own ideas that we call truth and we shun the “lies” despite the

Lying is a common habit that everyone has had experiences with. I have lied and have been lied to numerous times. Everyone has. However, not everyone exposed to a certain lie is aware of it’s true power. In her essay “The Ways We Lie”, Stephanie Ericsson criticizes our bad habit of lying. She explains many different types of lies and even gives examples to show how harmful they can be as “our acceptance of lies becomes a cultural cancer that eventually shrouds and reorders reality until moral garbage becomes invisible to us as water is to a fish” (128).

Have you ever wondered why it can be so hard to tell the truth, or why it seems better to tell a lie? In both F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Rob Marshall’s Chicago, characters lie because they feel that it is easier. However, lying leads to a downward- spiral. The society we live in can either lead us to a complicated relationship with the truth or easy going. The problem with constantly telling lies is that it starts off with one then leads to another until everything you say is a lie. People know it is easier to tell lies than face the truth because they are either doing it for money, or protection for themselves, people they love, or relationships. Yes, telling lies can help but imagine the damage you’re building up on the way. Nobody likes liars and liars can be found anywhere, even families lie to each other. Relationships are just like thin pieces of paper that make small tears to it every time a lie is told. The paper can be put back together but it will never be the same or be seen the same.

“The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort” Katherine Dunn perfectly describes what attracts us to lies from a quote in her book Geek Love. Most people lie to help themselves make it through day to day life. If people lie all the time, can all that lying really have an immense effect? Delays for telling the truth is not always a bad thing.While some lies are more helpful to some people more than others. Lies can make people seem untrustworthy, although lies help protect innocence, maintain self-esteem, and prevent harm from yourself or others.

Lies are not a rare occurrence, and are all around us. When faced with an unsettling truth, humans opt out confronting that truth by lying. No one is exempt from this imperfect quality of human nature. The statement made by Martin Buber is valid because of how prevalent lying is in day to day life. The liar believes that lying can create a bubble around the truth, but all bubbles are easily popped. Once they are popped, the liar is left in a worse position than they started in, but many lies go un-popped, as they blend with all other surroundings.

I think that Benjamin Franklin was trying to teach us not to lie because lying never gets us far. We learn that truth will always bring us success. Someone who is known for lying won't be listened to when he does tell the truth, and that will hold him back from a lot.

Have you ever been lied to? It hurts right? You lose all the respect and all the trust you had for that person. Trust is absolutely necessary for relationships to succeed. In the book “The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time” by Mark Haddon we are introduced to Christopher, a mentally challenged teen who is really smart in math and science but not very smart when it comes down to social skills. Christopher hates lies and doesn't trust people who tell them.

The article “Brad Blanton:Honestly,Tell the Truth” states”It keeps you locked in the jail of your own mind. You have to remember what you told each person. You have to think about what the person's reaction might be, and you start manipulating information to control the outcome”. I disagree because feeling guilty is not as bad as both people being hurt.Also, memorizing details of a lie could easily be avoided by keeping the lie simple. The article “Rejecting All Lies:Immanuel Kant” states “ A lie, even if it does not wrong any particular individual,always harms mankind individually.”. Some use lying as a way to get out of a situation instead of a tool of protection. The world is not getting affected by lying but how people are using it. Many do not think that lying is tainting the world but that simply is not

Barriers are always broken they are never permanent, and then that is when the real truth is revealed. Lies don’t do us any good as people in our world. If people want to have peace in the world, and be united get rid of the lies first. Lying to other people makes them lose their trust in you. It also separates you from them because they can’t trust you anymore. Why would you want to lose someone else's trust over a false thing that you have told

Nietzsche starts this second essay by looking at and reviewing the importance of our ability to make and keep promises. To hold yourself and others to a promise means having the need of both a good memory, the ability to remember making said promise and a strong feeling of confidence what will happen next and a long term ability to know you will be able to fulfil said promise. In order for us to make the commitment and have the confidence to do so means that on some level, we must give a feeling and make ourselves into the ideal of becoming in a way predictable, to be able to achieve this we as humans need a set of guideline to follow, certain rules that make this predictability a possibility, the certainty that a set of actions will lead to a set of reactions both internally and externally.

With self-deception taking care of the little things within ourselves, humans are free to worry about other things in the environment. Nietzsche calls the human race “artistically creating subjects” because we are able to take a stimulus whether it be an image, smell, or sound and make a metaphorical image in our minds of what the object is by assigning characteristics to it. Then, humans assign a metaphorical sound to represent the stimulus, which eventually becomes the basis of language. Therefore, we have created this metaphor to the perception of a stimulus that could change from person to person; it is completely subjective. No child is born with this knowledge of their environment, but taught by parents or guardians. For example, color

In order to properly evaluate BGE, I believe one must do so without appealing to traditional standards of valuation. As previously discussed, one of the fundamental aims of the text is to reject such notions. Instead, I will base my evaluation on two assumptions that are not undermined by the goals of the text. First, I will assume that Nietzsche is aiming to convey ideas to the reader. Second, if there is an ambiguity in the text that makes the nature of those ideas unclear, then there is a fundamental problem with the text. Accordingly, my criticism hinges on an ambiguity that is central to Nietzsche’s position. This ambiguity is the lack of clarity over whether Nietzsche makes the distinction between “truth” and “fact”. This is evident in

In Nietzsche’s examination of the will to truth, he questions the value of this will. Specifically, he wonders why it is truth that we desire instead of “untruth[,] uncertainty[, or] even ignorance[.]” Indeed, philosophers throughout the ages have attempted to investigate the exact nature of truth and construct their own conceptions of truth through rational inquiry (at least in their own minds). Despite the fact that many proposed theories regarding the truth would often contradict and negate each other, there exists one underlying sentiment that all inquisitors will share about truth. That is, the confidence that the truth is worth seeking after, because it is valuable and good. It is however, precisely this unwavering faith in the value of truth that Nietzsche is so wary of. This is why the value of the will to truth is the definitive question for Nietzsche. Instead of uncovering the actual properties of truth, he suggests that the more important task is to discern whether the truth is even worthy of such study.

Nietzsche was really upset with the Apostle Paul, whom he believed played a vital role in the death of Jesus Christ on the cross. He saw the disbelief of Paul and the other disciples as a way for them to invent a new doctrine that they called Christianity. Nietzsche was concerned with happiness as he knew it to be on Earth. Maybe this all stems back to his childhood trauma. Either way, Nietzsche never really presents any kind of evidence to substantiate his own claims.

I also agree that we should think before we act. First, we tell lies to avoid hurting the feelings of someone. Words are very powerful so when we are friends with someone and we know that they are hurting we usually tell white lies to make them feel better. In addition, we tell lies to protect their own feelings. If we know that a lie can make a person happy then go for it even though it is bad because we love them and we will do everything for them. Second, we tell lies to avoid getting into trouble. An example is we prevent physical and mental harm. A situation that is proper to this is when we are in danger; obviously we need to tell numerous lies to protect ourselves from getting hurt. Third, we tell lies to avoid losing someone. We tend to lie because the truth might ruin our relationship with the person even though we know that when we lie to someone, we already ruin the relationship we have with them. Moreover, gaining the trust of a person is very hard; we tend to push them away because some of us have trust issues, so when we finally gained that trust we are afraid to