Sensualism#
Summary#
Sensualism represents the canon of truth based on what can be seen and felt, appealing to ages with fundamentally plebeian tastes. Nietzsche contrasts this with the aristocratic Platonic mode of thought, which found triumph in resisting obvious sense-evidence and casting grey conceptual networks over the motley whirl of the senses. In studying physiology, sensualism may serve as a regulative hypothesis, though Nietzsche questions idealist claims that the external world is merely the work of our sense-organs, finding such reasoning leads to absurdity.