Nietzsche's Will to power naturalized : translating the human into nature and nature into the human / Brian Lightbody.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lightbody, Brian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900. Wille zur Macht.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Wille zur Macht (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm).

Nihilism (Philosophy).

Values.

Will.

Power (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

xix, 209 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2017]

Summary:

"The world viewed from the inside, the world defined and determined according to its 'intelligible character'-it would be 'will to power' and nothing else." Cryptic passages like this one from section 36 of Beyond Good and Evil have been the source of much intrigue, speculation, and puzzlement in the Nietzschean secondary literature. This passage in particular along with many others, have sparked a slew of questions in recent decades such as: "What is the will to power?" "Is will to power a metaphysical principle?" "Is it an empirical assertion?" "Or, is will to power merely a hypothesis that Nietzsche himself rejected?" Although the above questions are asked ad nausea in the literature, the multitude of answers given never seems to satisfy. In Nietuscke's Will to Power Naturalized. Translating the Human into Nature and Nature into the Human, Brian Lightbody sheds light on Nietzsch's most famous esoteric teaching by explaining what the will to power is and what it denotes. He then demonstrates how will to power may be naturalized in an attempt to show that the doctrine is epistemically and empirically defensible. Finally, he uses will to power as a philological key of sorts to unlock Nietzsche's philosophy as a whole by showing that his ontology, epistemology, and ethics are only properly understood once a coherent naturalized rendering of will to power is produced. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 What is Naturalism? Two Key Aspects 1

2 Interpretations of Nietzsche's Naturalism in the Secondary Literature: Methodological and Substance Naturalism 25

3 Naturalism and Will to Power 55

4 Three Solutions: Clark, Richardson, Williams 89

5 Naturalism and the Human Being: Nietzsche's Naturalized Ontology 125

6 The Human Being and Naturalism: Nietzsche's Naturalized Epistemology 145

7 Homo Natura: Nietzsche's Naturalized Morality 173.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Lightbody, Brian, author. Nietzsche's Will to power naturalized.

ISBN:

9781498515771

1498515770

OCLC:

962068716