European University Institute Library

Nietzsche's metaphysics of the will to power, the possibility of value, Tsarina Doyle

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

Nietzsche's metaphysics of the will to power

bibliography

1005104979

Tsarina Doyle

the possibility of value

Nietzsche's controversial will to power thesis is convincingly rehabilitated in this compelling book. Tsarina Doyle presents a fresh interpretation of his account of nature and value, which sees him defy the dominant conception of nature in the Enlightenment and overturn Hume's distinction between facts and values. Doyle argues that Nietzsche challenges Hume indirectly through critical engagement with Kant's idealism, and that in so doing and despite some wrong turns, he establishes the possibility of objective value in response to nihilism and the causal efficacy of consciousness as a necessary condition of human autonomy. Her book will be important for scholars of Nietzsche's metaphysics, and of the history of philosophy and science more generally.--, provided by publisher

Introduction: structure of the argument. Nietzsche and Naturalism. 1. Nihilism and the Problem of Objective Value: The Kantian Roots to Nietzsche's Fictionalism: The Priority of Art over Science. The Second Argument for Value Fictionalism: The Priority of Science over Art Non-Cognitivism and Phenomenal Objectivity. 2. Value and Objectivity: Value Objectivism Comprehensive Science. 3. The Will to Power as a Response to Kant: Nietzsche's Qualified Praise for Kant's Idealism. The Will to Power as an Alternative to Kant's Synthesis. A Textual and Philosophical Challenge. 4. Value and the Will to Power: Nietzsche's Dispositional Account of Value. Anti-Projectionism Dispositions and Normativity. 5. The Capacities of the Conscious Mind: The Leibnizean and Kantian background to Nietzsche's Account of the Conscious Mind. Reconstruction of Nietzsche's Argument. The Ubiquity of the Intentional. Conclusion