Nietzsche against Metaphysics: The Ironic Naturalism of the Gay Science
Martin Heidegger and Richard Rorty argue that Nietzsche commits himself to biological naturalism. But I explore Nietzsche as a pure anti-metaphysician.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche on Joy: N.B. Requires Anguish
Nietzsche on Joy: he writes in the Preface to The Gay Science that authentic joy and depth only arise from an encounter with prolonged anguish.
Nietzsche and the Ancients: Against Fear as a Way of Life
Nietzsche and the Ancients. Confront life on life’s terms. Even when those terms seem perverse and brutal. Sallust, Horace, Thucydides.
Four Great Errors: Nietzsche’s Critique of Causation
Nietzsche names ‘four great errors’ in Twilight. The title plays on Aristotle’s four causes of being and marks a loose critique of Aristotelian metaphysics.