Abstract
Perhaps no part of Nietzsche’s philosophical thinking has been the occasion of more confusion, misunderstanding and mischief among his readers and interpreters — both friendly and hostile — than his treatment of knowledge, truth, and certain matters relating to them (although his treatments of value and morality and of what might loosely be called our human nature and differences are also contenders for this distinction). I consider this doubly unfortunate, not only owing to the consequences of the flames he has been used to fan and fuel, but also because of the importance of the contribution his thinking on these matters (as I understand it) might have made to subsequent inquiry. It is my hope that this contribution might yet be made.1
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Notes
For a fuller treatment of these matters, see my Nietzsche (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983), Chap. 2, from which this essay is derived. See also my Making Sense of Nietzsche (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1995), esp. Chaps. 2–4.
Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil,section 230.
I shall avail myself of notes from Nietzsche’s notebooks (and in particular of those gathered together and published under the title The Will to Power),as well as his published writings, on the grounds that these notes provide further valuable indications of his thinking on the matters under consideration, even if not definitive expressions of it. For a general discussion of this issue, see my Making Sense of Nietzsche,Chap. 6.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1999 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Schacht, R. (1999). Nietzsche: Truth and Knowledge. In: Babich, B.E. (eds) Nietzsche, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 204. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2428-9_2
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2428-9_2
Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht
Print ISBN: 978-90-481-5234-6
Online ISBN: 978-94-017-2428-9
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive