PHI 3377 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Positivism, Atomism
30 Nov 2013
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Morality nietzsche reduces morality down to will to power. There"s no such thing as morality, it"s all will to power. Anthropomorphisms taking words to mean real things when they don"t. Link between nietzsche and francis bacon and his description of various idols. Nietzsche is not trying to destroy those idols and replace it with his own ideology. Bacon truth is given by the critical science. Nietzsche all metaphysical which lay any claims to truth how things are in themselves including science. The word that we use to describe objects does not correspond to the thing in itself we describe things a certain way to suit our purposes. We describe appearance for our purposes, but it doesn"t mean that at a deep level that nature is following laws. Morality is a feature of the subject. He would later on return to his initial starting point. Our senses transmit the world, but not as it is in itself.
