Nietzsche's Philosophy of Nature and CosmologyNietzsche's doctrine of the «eternal recurrence of the same» - the conception that the universe of events repeats itself in the same sequence, to infinity - is often taken to be logically incoherent: if an event recurs, it is not identically the same as the event itself, and if taken as self-identical cannot be the recurrence of anything. This book offers a new interpretation of the doctrine so as to rescue it from the charge of incoherence. It shows that the doctrine is an outgrowth of ideas found in Nietzsche's philosophy of nature, among them that space is Riemannian (finite yet without external boundary) and that time is relative to events, not an independently existing continuum which underlies events. |
Contents
Questions of Method | 15 |
Nietzsches account of method as a clue to his | 24 |
Nietzsches conception of truth and belief | 32 |
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according to Nietzsche action activity appears aspect atoms basic become belief body Boscovich Capek causality Chapter complex consciousness created creatures criticism Descartes Dionysus discharge discussion doctrine of recurrence dominant force drives effect epiphenomenal eternal recurrence Euclidean space example existence experience explain expression feeling finite Heraclitus human individual infinite inner inorganic intellect interpretation Kant Kant's Kaufmann language Leibniz Magnus Malebranche manifestations means merely metaphysical monad necessity neutrinos Nietzsche calls Nietzsche claims Nietzsche denies Nietzsche regards Nietzsche thinks Nietzsche's account Nietzsche's conception Nietzsche's cosmology Nietzsche's doctrine Nietzsche's idea Nietzsche's philosophy Nietzsche's universe objects organism outer Parmenides perceive perception perspectival centers perspective philosophy of nature possible presupposes principle reconvergence repulsive force resistance seems sense shown Socrates space spatial Spinoza Stambaugh structure substance system of forces teleological theory thought totality of force truth Übermensch underlying understanding unity Walter Kaufmann words