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71: The History of European Nihilism

The Nietzsche Podcast

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The Science of Nietzsche's Theory of the Phenomenal World

Nietzsche's view of politics, culture and history is worth reconsidering in light of his assertion of eternal return. The principle we've often used to help formulate Nietzsche's perspective on the phenomenal world is the will to power. If our world is only the phenomenal then our existence takes place within a world which is all sensation and representation. It would be a huge leap to say that we have a choice of how we act or don't act.

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