Category: Christian Emden

Nietzsche’s Will to Power: Biology, Naturalism, and Normativity

February 24, 2025February 28, 2025 Admin No Comments

This paper was written by Christian Emden and published in 2016. The abstract states: “The ‘will to power’ remains one of Nietzsche’s most controversial philosophical concepts. In this article I argue that the will to power ties in directly with Nietzsche’s naturalistic discussion of normativity. The link between the will to power and normativity cannot…

Biological, Christian Emden, Morality, Philosophers, The Will to Power

Nietzsche’s Naturalism: Philosophy and the Life Sciences in the Nineteenth Century

February 24, 2025March 1, 2025 Admin No Comments

This book was written by Christian Emden and published in 2014. Among many other things, it provides the most comprehensive and detailed investigation of the work of the scientists that influenced Nietzsche’s development of the concept of the will to power. He argues that the biological version of that concept plays a fundamental role in…

Biological, Christian Emden, Philosophers, The Will to Power