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'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' -- Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals'

Thus Spake Nietzsche « Previous | |Next »
July 10, 2005

In the mid-1870s Nietzsche went through a phase of celebrating science worship based on viewing natural science as the paradigm of all genuine knowledge. The period came to an end with Human, All-too-Human.

In the early 1880s a skepticism towards science developed that questioned whether science could picture reality understood as the world-as-it-is-in-itself. Nietzsche rejected the Kantian distinction between a noumenal and phenomenal world. In his later works he repeatedly endorses a scientific perspective whilst questioning science from the perspective of an artistic interpretation of phenomena).

Positivism: the death rattle of the Enlightenment.

That's Nietzsche:

Against positivism, which halts at phenomena,'There are only facts',I would say: No, facts is precisely what there is not, only interpretations. We cannot establish any fact 'in itself': perhaps it is folly to want to do such a thing (WP, 267).

What we have here is the turn to hermeneutics and interpretation.

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 11:53 PM | | Comments (0)
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