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      Nietzsche on truth

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      Date
      2008
      Author
      Warr, Aaron
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      Friedrich Nietzsche, 100 years after his death, remains a controversial figure in philosophy. Much of this controversy stems from Nietzsche's view of truth, which seems superficially hopelessly contradictory, vacillating between relativism and denial of truth on the one hand, and praise for science and “hard truths” on the other. Thus, any person wanting to defend Nietzsche's positive philosophy must first make sense of his epistemology. The solution to this puzzle regarding Nietzsche's theory of truth is the realization that Nietzsche changes his view on truth. Much like Wittgenstien, Nietzsche had an early and a late period in his epistemic views, and a middle period where he is struggling with two very different, incompatible views. The late view of truth is surprisingly straightforward: Nietzsche can be seen as an early pragmatist. Once we have a coherent truth theory, we can then start to conclude some of the more contentious arguments in Nietzsche's philosophy, such as: what is the Will to Power, and how does Nietzsche's view of truth interact with his criticism of morality? This thesis will trace the development of the former and endeavor to answer some of the latter.
      Degree
      Master of Arts (M.A.)
      Department
      Philosophy
      Program
      Philosophy
      Supervisor
      Dayton, Eric
      Committee
      Hudson, Robert G.; Howe, Leslie A.; Dwyer, Philip; Thorpe, Douglas
      Copyright Date
      2008
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-08092008-194304
      Subject
      Will to Power
      Post-Modernism
      Pragmatism
      Nietzsche
      Moral Philosophy
      Epistomology
      Maudemarie Clark
      German Philosophy
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