Abstract Perhaps the most fundamental disagreement concerning Nietzsche's view of metaphysics is that some commentators believe Nietzsche has a positive, systematic metaphysical project, and others deny this. Those who it hold believes special problem, is, distinctively problematic feature distinguishes from other areas philosophy. In this paper, I investigate important features metametaphysics...

One day the wanderer slammed a door behind himself, stopped in his tracks, and wept. Then he said: "This penchant and passion for what is true, real, nonapparent, certain-how it aggravates me. Spencerian Morality A Warning: Before we insist on killing ourselves with Reality, pure unmitigated "enlightenment," there is still time for glorious fantasy. Perhaps the worst thing one can do to another...

Nietzsche’s criticisms were directed against what he reckons as the progressive ‘moral’ disintegration of late 19 century Germany. He described morality as “the doctrine of the relations of supremacy (Herrschafts-Verhältnissen) under which the phenomenon of ‘life’ comes to be.” This definition, however, is broad and mired in ambiguity, and as will be pointed out later, escapes multitudinous ‘mo...

Nietzsche, throughout his writings, chides other philosophers for not placing their question marks at a deep enough place – for breaking off their inquiries prematurely, rather than pressing their questions all the way to the end, allowing themselves to discover where their questions, if pressed, might eventually lead1. In one of his posthumously published manuscripts, the following series of q...

No part of this work may be reproduced by print, photocopy or any other means without the permission in writing from the publisher. Dit proefschrift is goedgekeurd door: Prof. dr. W.J. Briels (promotor) " Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. "-Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche's analysis of the self-poisoning of ‘the will to power’ and his insistence upon overcoming its ideological outcome (the dogmatist's fake ‘Truth’) by recognizing the ‘un-truth’ of a ‘logic of contamination,’ demonstrates that he understands ‘truth’ as a paradox. What may one accordingly expect in response to the question ‘Supposing truth is a woman – what then?’, posed in the preface t...

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Those of us who see the historical figures we work on as sources philosophical insight, rather than merely interest, will sooner or later run up against question how to handle those parts our chosen figures’ views that are morally objectionable. Nietzsche, and consider him be a source significant face this problem in an especially troublesome form. It is not Nietzsche’s views, when they objecti...