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Book SynopsisThe world viewed from the inside, the world defined and determined according to its intelligible characterit would be will to power and nothing else. Cryptic passages like this one from section 36 of Beyond Good and Evil have been the source of much intrigue, speculation, and puzzlement in the Nietzschean secondary literature. This passage in particular along with many others, have sparked a slew of questions in recent decades such as: What is the will to power? Is will to power a metaphysical principle? Is it an empirical assertion? Or, is will to power merely a hypothesis that Nietzsche himself rejected? Although asked ad nausea in the literature, the multitude of answers given to the above questions never seem to satisfy. In this book, Brian Lightbody shed light on Nietzsche's most famous esoteric teaching by explaining what the will to power is and what it denotes. He then demonstrates how will to power may be naturalized in an attempt to show that the doctrine is epistemically
Table of ContentsPreface A Note on Sources Introduction: Nietzsche, Naturalism and Will to Power Ground Chapter One: What is Naturalism? Two Key Aspects Chapter Two: Interpretations of Nietzsche’s Naturalism in the Secondary Literature: Methodological and Substance Naturalism Chapter Three: Naturalism and Will to Power Chapter 4: Three Solutions: Clark, Richardson, Williams Chapter Five: Naturalism and the Human Being: Nietzsche’s Naturalized Ontology Chapter Six: The Human being and Naturalism: Nietzsche’s Naturalized Epistemology Chapter Seven: Homo Natura: Nietzsche’s Naturalized Morality Conclusion: Genealogy
