Book contents
- Nietzsche’s Metaphilosophy
- Nietzsche’s Metaphilosophy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Texts, Translations, and References
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Evolving Metaphilosophies
- Part II The Nature of Philosophy
- Chapter 4 The Relationship between Science and Philosophy as a Key Feature of Nietzsche’s Metaphilosophy
- Chapter 5 Genuine Philosophers, Value-Creation, and Will to Power
- Chapter 6 Nietzsche’s Masks
- Part III The Method of Philosophy
- Part IV The Aims of Philosophy
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 4 - The Relationship between Science and Philosophy as a Key Feature of Nietzsche’s Metaphilosophy
from Part II - The Nature of Philosophy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2019
- Nietzsche’s Metaphilosophy
- Nietzsche’s Metaphilosophy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Texts, Translations, and References
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Evolving Metaphilosophies
- Part II The Nature of Philosophy
- Chapter 4 The Relationship between Science and Philosophy as a Key Feature of Nietzsche’s Metaphilosophy
- Chapter 5 Genuine Philosophers, Value-Creation, and Will to Power
- Chapter 6 Nietzsche’s Masks
- Part III The Method of Philosophy
- Part IV The Aims of Philosophy
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
My main aim in this chapter is to clarify Nietzsche’s approach to the relationship between philosophy and the natural and physical sciences. I focus on Nietzsche’s free spirit writings. I begin by showing that Nietzsche’s free spirit project requires the development of a new type of philosophers who can experiment, and who will therefore be able to create and legislate new values. I suggest that the experimentation requirement entails a relationship of dynamic co-constitution between philosophy and the sciences, in which philosophy and the sciences act as partners in a continuous process of experimentation. I claim that adopting this approach to understanding the relationship between philosophy and the sciences in Nietzsche’s free spirit writings strengthens the case for an aesthetic naturalist interpretation of the relationship between philosophy and the sciences in Nietzsche. I also claim that this approach helps to explain why Nietzsche makes both positive and negative remarks about the natural and physical sciences in his free spirit writings, and why his position is consistent.
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- Nietzsche's MetaphilosophyThe Nature, Method, and Aims of Philosophy, pp. 65 - 82Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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