Nietzsche's categories : an examination of the principal categories of Nietzsche's philosophy and the arguments they circumscribe
This thesis endeavours to critically examine and interpret the principal categories which govern the ontological and epi.stemological foundations of Nietzsche's philosophy. Its primary concern i.sto systematically layout in an hitherto unattempted way Nietzsche's varied employments of the categories of Being (Sein), reality (Realit~at), appearance (Scheinbarkei~), contradiction (Widerspruch), life (Leben) and Becoming (Werden). The aims of this approach are as follows. (I) A presentatiun of Nietzsche's primary philosophical ar:Â·gumentswithin the categorical horizons in which they are set will reveal his various approaches to a given category and thereby highlight his distinct critical and constructive philosophical manoeuvres. (2) Elucidating Nietzsche's uses of his major categories exposes the formal procedures which characterise his mode of philosophy. Particular attention is given to his commitment to monism, to speculative inductions, to a variation of -the principle of identity and non-identity and to a dialectically circular structure of thought which hinges upon concepts of the implicit and explicit. (3) By illuminating Nietzsche's intellectual procedures, the systematic character of his philosophising
Davey, N.
Philosophy
Nietzsche's categories : an examination of the principal categories of Nietzsche's philosophy and the arguments they circumscribe. This thesis endeavours to critically examine and interpret the principal categories which govern the ontological and epi.stemological foundations of Nietzsche's philosophy. Its primary concern i.sto systematically layout in an hitherto unattempted way Nietzsche's varied employments of the categories of Being (Sein), reality (Realit~at), appearance (Scheinbarkei~), contradiction (Widerspruch), life (Leben) and Becoming (Werden). The aims of this approach are as follows. (I) A presentatiun of Nietzsche's primary philosophical ar:Â·gumentswithin the categorical horizons in which they are set will reveal his various approaches to a given category and thereby highlight his distinct critical and constructive philosophical manoeuvres. (2) Elucidating Nietzsche's uses of his major categories exposes the formal procedures which characterise his mode of philosophy. Particular attention is given to his commitment to monism, to speculative inductions, to a variation of -the principle of identity and non-identity and to a dialectically circular structure of thought which hinges upon concepts of the implicit and explicit. (3) By illuminating Nietzsche's intellectual procedures, the systematic character of his philosophising
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