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.

Comments

This is the author's preprint of a paper to be published in a forthcoming edition of Journal of the American Philosophical Association.

Original Publication Citation

Remhof, J. (2021). Nietzsche: Metaphysician. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, Online Ahead of Print, 27 pp.

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