Gericke on The Essence and Existence of Nietzsche's Philosophy:
Nietzsche's two Basic Concepts (grundbegriffe) are Will To Power and Eternal Return Of The Same. This statement is both true and thoughtless. Everywhere Philosophers know this about Nietzsche, but when they explain it, Nietzsche's basic concepts sound silly and strange. Of course we have no evidence that Space/Time endlessly repeats itself as an Eternal Return of The Same. And what does Will to Power mean anyway?
Classically, the Being of beings is understood as a Unity, the essential/existential aspects of the Being of beings. Accordingly, Nietzsche's key concepts also express a uniity. But what does it mean to say the "essence" of beings is understood within the horizon of Will to Power? In the above article, Dr. Jaco Dr. Gericke, points out:
-The answer to the question ‘What is that?’ is a process of fixing a meaning from a different standpoint. The 'essence', the 'essential factor', is something which is seen as a whole only in perspective, and which presupposes a basis which is multifarious (Nietzsche 1968:556)."
Gericke analyzes:
-What it is to possess a property essentially is a matter of debate. That is putting it mildly. Included here are (very crudely summarized) Socrates (essence as common properties), Plato (essence as archetype), Aristotle (essence as genus), Porphyry (essence as species), Boethius (essence vs. existence), Avicenna (essence as quiddity/whatness), Abelard (essence as semantic feature), Scotus (essence as haecceity/thisness), Descartes (essence as principle attribute), Locke (essence as sortal), Leibniz (essence as sufficient reason), Kant (essence vs. appearances), Hegel (essence in/as appearances), Nietzsche (only (non) appearances), Wittgenstein (essence as grammar), Husserl (essence as given), Heidegger (essence as being), Sartre (existence before essence), Popper (essence as definitional fallacy), Quine (essence as accidents), Putnam (essence as stereotype), Kripke (essence as necessary properties), Derrida (“essence” vs. identity/difference), Deleuze (“essence” vs. difference/multiplicity) see: https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/philosophical-assumptions-rela…
This analysis in Gericke's article on Nietzsche is helpful at "dis-closing" the (1) Essential (What-Being) aspect of the Being of beings as Will to Power.
I would just add that we also need to consider Nietzsche's (2) Existential (How-Being) aspect of the Being of beings as Eternal Return of the Same. On this second meaning and its relation to Ecclesiastes, see my analysis here: http://palpatinesway.blogspot.com/2018/10/heidegger-and-tragic-interpre…
Gericke on The Essence and Existence of Nietzsche's Philosophy:
Nietzsche's two Basic Concepts (grundbegriffe) are Will To Power and Eternal Return Of The Same. This statement is both true and thoughtless. Everywhere Philosophers know this about Nietzsche, but when they explain it, Nietzsche's basic concepts sound silly and strange. Of course we have no evidence that Space/Time endlessly repeats itself as an Eternal Return of The Same. And what does Will to Power mean anyway?
Classically, the Being of beings is understood as a Unity, the essential/existential aspects of the Being of beings. Accordingly, Nietzsche's key concepts also express a uniity. But what does it mean to say the "essence" of beings is understood within the horizon of Will to Power? In the above article, Dr. Jaco Dr. Gericke, points out:
-The answer to the question ‘What is that?’ is a process of fixing a meaning from a different standpoint. The 'essence', the 'essential factor', is something which is seen as a whole only in perspective, and which presupposes a basis which is multifarious (Nietzsche 1968:556)."
Gericke analyzes:
-What it is to possess a property essentially is a matter of debate. That is putting it mildly. Included here are (very crudely summarized) Socrates (essence as common properties), Plato (essence as archetype), Aristotle (essence as genus), Porphyry (essence as species), Boethius (essence vs. existence), Avicenna (essence as quiddity/whatness), Abelard (essence as semantic feature), Scotus (essence as haecceity/thisness), Descartes (essence as principle attribute), Locke (essence as sortal), Leibniz (essence as sufficient reason), Kant (essence vs. appearances), Hegel (essence in/as appearances), Nietzsche (only (non) appearances), Wittgenstein (essence as grammar), Husserl (essence as given), Heidegger (essence as being), Sartre (existence before essence), Popper (essence as definitional fallacy), Quine (essence as accidents), Putnam (essence as stereotype), Kripke (essence as necessary properties), Derrida (“essence” vs. identity/difference), Deleuze (“essence” vs. difference/multiplicity) see: https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/philosophical-assumptions-rela…
This analysis in Gericke's article on Nietzsche is helpful at "dis-closing" the (1) Essential (What-Being) aspect of the Being of beings as Will to Power.
I would just add that we also need to consider Nietzsche's (2) Existential (How-Being) aspect of the Being of beings as Eternal Return of the Same. On this second meaning and its relation to Ecclesiastes, see my analysis here: http://palpatinesway.blogspot.com/2018/10/heidegger-and-tragic-interpre…