Book contents
- Nietzsche’s Struggle against Pessimism
- Nietzsche’s Struggle against Pessimism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Primary Sources
- Introduction
- Part I Nietzsche’s Intellectual Context and Early Reception of Pessimism
- Part II The Beginnings of Change
- Chapter 3 Nietzsche’s New Naturalism
- Chapter 4 “Bad News for Priests”
- Part III Nietzsche’s Mature Rejection of the ‘Pessimism of Sensibility’
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 3 - Nietzsche’s New Naturalism
from Part II - The Beginnings of Change
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 November 2023
- Nietzsche’s Struggle against Pessimism
- Nietzsche’s Struggle against Pessimism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Primary Sources
- Introduction
- Part I Nietzsche’s Intellectual Context and Early Reception of Pessimism
- Part II The Beginnings of Change
- Chapter 3 Nietzsche’s New Naturalism
- Chapter 4 “Bad News for Priests”
- Part III Nietzsche’s Mature Rejection of the ‘Pessimism of Sensibility’
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter explores how Nietzsche’s shift towards a naturalistic methodology in the late 1870s offers him an axiological and epistemic apparatus that radically alters his philosophical articulation of pessimism, and consequently affects his attitude towards it. The chapter argues that contemporary Nietzsche scholarship has largely overlooked the importance of Human, All Too Human as a crucial stage of Nietzsche’s development in approaching the question of the value of existence. By exploring the influence of Paul Rée, Eugen Dühring, and the neo-Kantians, it introduces Nietzsche’s own ‘frame of reference’ argument against pessimism as a metaphysical view, and distinguishes between different possible interpretations of it.
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- Nietzsche's Struggle against Pessimism , pp. 101 - 128Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023