> What usually passes for philosophy, according to Nietzsche, tends to diagnose our confusion as due to a lack of understanding, thus "artificially directing" our vigilance away from the smallest and most everyday things - encouraging us to attempt an ever more sophisticated employment of the intellect in the place of the requisite exercise of attention. 120 This provides a general specification of what Nietzsche takes the task of philosophy to be: to enable us to see those closest things of all that most of us see very badly and very rarely heed.121 > — Conant > <!-- #web/people --> <!-- {BearID:Nietzsche.md} -->