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  • Chapter 6 - Nietzsche’s Solution to the Philosophical Problem of Change

  • Edited by Keith Ansell-Pearson, University of Warwick, Paul S. Loeb, University of Puget Sound, Washington
  • Book:
    Nietzsche's ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra'
    Published online:
    09 June 2022
    Print publication:
    23 June 2022, pp 125-147

  • Summary

    Paul Loeb discusses the intensely debated topic of Nietzsche’s philosophical naturalism and thinks that the crucial text is Nietzsche’s JS 109. For Loeb the argument has to do with removing anthropomorphic projective errors from our concept of nature. Loeb thinks that Nietzsche’s naturalism in TSZ leads him to endorse the truth of cosmological eternal recurrence and that this truth entails for Nietzsche a solution to the problem of radical flux and a means of curing the human feeling of impotence and spirit of revenge that is provoked by this radical flux. Loeb claims that Zarathustra gains a stronger sense of agency because his new understanding of the reality of circular time enables him to have a causal influence on the past – an influence which is embodied and displayed in the chronological narrative of TSZ.