Title
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2021
Publication Title
Journal of the American Philosophical Association
Volume
Online Ahead of Print
Pages
27 pp.
Abstract
Perhaps the most fundamental disagreement concerning Nietzsche’s view of metaphysics is that some commentators believe Nietzsche has a positive, systematic metaphysical project, and others deny this. Those who deny it hold that Nietzsche believes metaphysics has a special problem, that is, a distinctively problematic feature which distinguishes metaphysics from other areas of philosophy. In this paper, I investigate important features of Nietzsche’s metametaphysics in order to argue that Nietzsche does not, in fact, think metaphysics has a special problem. The result is that, against a longstanding view held in the literature, we should be reading Nietzsche as a metaphysician.
Original Publication Citation
Remhof, J. (2021). Nietzsche: Metaphysician. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, Online Ahead of Print, 27 pp.
Repository Citation
Remhof, Justin, "Nietzsche: Metaphysician" (2021). Philosophy Faculty Publications. 66.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/philosophy_fac_pubs/66
Comments
This is the author's preprint of a paper to be published in a forthcoming edition of Journal of the American Philosophical Association.