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Chapter 6 - Nietzsche’s Solution to the Philosophical Problem of Change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2022

By
Paul S. Loeb
Edited by
Keith Ansell-Pearson  and
Paul S. Loeb
Keith Ansell-Pearson
Affiliation:
University of Warwick
Paul S. Loeb
Affiliation:
University of Puget Sound, Washington
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Summary

Paul Loeb discusses the intensely debated topic of Nietzsche’s philosophical naturalism and thinks that the crucial text is Nietzsche’s JS 109. For Loeb the argument has to do with removing anthropomorphic projective errors from our concept of nature. Loeb thinks that Nietzsche’s naturalism in TSZ leads him to endorse the truth of cosmological eternal recurrence and that this truth entails for Nietzsche a solution to the problem of radical flux and a means of curing the human feeling of impotence and spirit of revenge that is provoked by this radical flux. Loeb claims that Zarathustra gains a stronger sense of agency because his new understanding of the reality of circular time enables him to have a causal influence on the past – an influence which is embodied and displayed in the chronological narrative of TSZ.

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naturalismanthropomorphismeternal recurrenceradical fluxrevengecircular time
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Nietzsche's ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra'
A Critical Guide
 , pp. 125 - 147
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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