Nietzsche’s work was shaped by his engagement with ancient Greek
philosophy. Matthew Meyer analyzes Nietzsche’s concepts of becoming
and perspectivism and his alleged rejection of the principle of
non-contradiction, and he traces these views back to the
Heraclitean-Protagorean position that Plato and Aristotle critically
analyze in the Theaetetus and Metaphysica IV, respectively. At the
center of this Heraclitean-Protagorean position is a relational
ontology in which everything exists and is what it is only in relation
to something else. Meyer argues that this relational ontology is not
only theoretically foundational for Nietzsche’s philosophical
project, in that it is the common element in Nietzsche’s views on
becoming, perspectivism, and the principle of non-contradiction, but
also textually foundational, in that Nietzsche implicitly commits
himself to such an ontology in raising the question of opposites at
the beginning of both Human, All Too Human and Beyond Good and Evil.
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An Analysis of Becoming, Perspectivism, and the Principle of Non-Contradiction
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9781614518150
Publisert
2015
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De Gruyter
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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