Nietzsche's Metaphysics of the Will to Power: The Possibility of Value
Cambridge University Press, 2/15/2018
EAN 9781108417280, ISBN10: 1108417280
Hardcover, 248 pages, 23.5 x 15.7 x 1.7 cm
Language: English
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.
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.