Nietzsche: Metaphysician

Nietzsche

Der 'Nietzsche-Thesaurus' des Nietzsche-Online-Portals

The ‚Nietzsche-Thesaurus’ ist part of an Internet-Portal to the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (under construction). By using the complex Index of a Citation Lexicon (print version) and combining it with the lexikal data and structure of the ‘Deutscher Wortschatz’ (Wehrle/Eggers, a kind of transformation of the Roget’s Thesaurus), a relational access system is developed. Concept and Sta...

Nietzsche on Freedom

One of the very few matters of nearly universal agreement with respect to Nietzsche interpretation, one that bridges the great analytic/continental divide, is that Nietzsche was offering some sort of account of freedom, in contradistinction to the ‘ascetic’ or ‘slavish’ ways of the past. What remains in dispute is the character of this account. In this paper I present Nietzsche’s account of fre...

Nietzsche and Contemporary Metaethics

1I use the following standard acronyms when citing Nietzsche’s texts: TheAntichrist (A); Beyond Good and Evil (BGE);TheBirth of Tragedy (BT);TheCase ofWagner (CW);Daybreak (D); Ecce Homo (EH); On the Genealogy of Morality (GM); The Gay Science (GS); Human, All-Too-Human (HH); Nietzsche contra Wagner (NCW); Twilight of the Idols (TI); Untimely Meditations (UM); Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Z). I cite...

Through the Den of the Metaphysician

ion. By detecting noncongruence of apparent continua of sense awareness, even a system constructed of leasts can form the universal of "in-between" and propose the Eleatic riddles. By projecting universals as expected regularities of all future experiments, it can frame hypotheses in order ultimately to disprove them. It can build bigger and better brains, but what it has are sufficient to guid...