Will to Power as Alternative to Causality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23201809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joshua Rayman (0000-0002-8952-6345, University of South Florida, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 361-372 |
| Publication date | 2016-08-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Speculative Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-625X • E-ISSN: 1527-9383 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/jspecphil.30.3.0361 |
| OpenAlex | W2509186708 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
The radicality of Nietzsche's critique of causality has been overlooked by Nietzschean naturalists, who carry on with their appeals to causal-scientific forms of explanation as if there were no such critique. But the force of his critique is far broader, for he sees causality as the nexus or foundation of metaphysics in general. In the absence of causality, it is as if we are “wandering as through an infinite nothing,” deprived of conceptual description and explanation. However, I would argue that in the will to power and eternal recurrence, Nietzsche provides a worked-out, nonnaturalist, nonmetaphysical replacement for the causal-metaphysical narrative.
Causality (physics) · Epistemology · Metaphysics · Narrative · Nexus (standard) · Nothing · Physics · Power (physics) · Quantum mechanics · Computer Science · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
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Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy
Vom Willen zur Macht
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Friedrich Nietzsche, sein Leben und sein Werk
Naturalism and Value in Nietzsche
Nietzsche
Nietzsche on truth and philosophy
Will to Power in Nietzsche's Published Works and the Nachlass
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |