If our body were the work of our organs, our organs themselves would be the work of our organs
If our body were the work of our organs, then our organs themselves would be the work of our organs.
Aber dann wären ja unsre Organe selbst - das Werk unsrer Organe!
But then our organs themselves would be - the work of our organs!
The third sentence of the passage, the second step of the reductio. »Dann« takes up the sentence before, that our body would be the work of our organs; the step from the body to the organs has no ground stated in the sentence, which the dash before »das Werk unsrer Organe« marks as the point, and the map supplies none: that the organs are part of the body is not written here, and the statement keeps the conditional as the text has it. The second premise of a-nietzsche-external-world-not-work-of-organs.
Supports
- a-nietzsche-external-world-not-work-of-organsSupposing the concept causa sui absurd, the external world is not the work of our organs, because otherwise our body and then our organs themselves would be the work of our organs