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71: The History of European Nihilism

The Nietzsche Podcast

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The Reification of Cause and Effect

Nietzsche believes in a world of matter acting solely according to the properties of said matter, producing these negative feedback loops that then create the same circumstances over and over again. The scientific method people use is premised on the same thing happening if you run it under the same conditions - but why would we not apply this principle to the universe itself? He says there's no substrate to being simply a multiplicity, a play of forces, and yet a multiplicity in which all are interconnected.

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