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Nietzsche against metaphysics

Nietzsche against Metaphysics: The Ironic Naturalism of the Gay Science

March 19, 2021July 7, 2018 by Louis

Martin Heidegger and Richard Rorty argue that Nietzsche commits himself to biological naturalism. But I explore Nietzsche as a pure anti-metaphysician.

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Nietzsche on Joy: N.B. Requires Anguish

July 9, 2018June 27, 2018 by Louis

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.

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Nietzsche and the Ancients

Nietzsche and the Ancients: Against Fear as a Way of Life

March 19, 2021June 26, 2018 by Louis

Nietzsche and the Ancients. Confront life on life’s terms. Even when those terms seem perverse and brutal. Sallust, Horace, Thucydides.

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Four Great Errors: Nietzsche’s Critique of Causation

July 9, 2018June 13, 2018 by Louis

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.

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