@article{ART002172370},
author={Kwang-Yul Seo},
title={Nietzsche’s Thought of Science and Culture},
journal={Journal of Humanities},
issn={1598-8457},
year={2016},
number={63},
pages={225-248}
TY - JOUR
AU - Kwang-Yul Seo
TI - Nietzsche’s Thought of Science and Culture
JO - Journal of Humanities
PY - 2016
VL - null
IS - 63
PB - Institute for Humanities
SP - 225
EP - 248
SN - 1598-8457
AB - Nietzsche’s resistance against his times was, without exception, manifested in his attitude toward science. He was born, lived and died in the 19th century when men could not deny the outcome of science any more. Young Nietzsche in the 1870s had an interest in science and read science books devoutly. But he was not hooked on science, but understood science from the viewpoint of a critical thinker. On the one hand, he admired the realistic fact and knowledge of science. On the other hand, he rejected absolutization of science like traditional metaphysics. In short, he rejected not science but scientism. He admitted the fact that science was civilization. However, he would not think that natural science was a kind of culture. In the 1880s, Nietzsche wrote many books, and purchased a lesser amount of science books. But his interest and adaptation of scientific ideas increased. His idea of ‘Overman’, ‘Will-to-Power’ and ‘eternal recurrence’ were influenced by the contemporary science of biology, chemistry and physics. He embraced his own readings of natural science books and reflected them in his later philosophy. As s result, the task of Nietzsche was translated into a creation of ‘science as culture’. According to Nietzsche, this task can be accomplished only through the union of science and art. His Gay Science was not science in a narrow sense. For Nietzsche, science is an interpretation of the world and the freedom of interpretation was the gaiety of science. This gaiety is a necessary condition of science as culture.
KW - Nietzsche;Science;Culture;Creative Science;Art
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Kwang-Yul Seo. (2016). Nietzsche’s Thought of Science and Culture. Journal of Humanities, 63, 225-248.
Kwang-Yul Seo. 2016, "Nietzsche’s Thought of Science and Culture", Journal of Humanities, no.63, pp.225-248.
Kwang-Yul Seo "Nietzsche’s Thought of Science and Culture" Journal of Humanities 63 pp.225-248 (2016) : 225.
Kwang-Yul Seo. Nietzsche’s Thought of Science and Culture. 2016; 63 : 225-248.
Kwang-Yul Seo. "Nietzsche’s Thought of Science and Culture" Journal of Humanities no.63(2016) : 225-248.
Kwang-Yul Seo. Nietzsche’s Thought of Science and Culture. Journal of Humanities, 63, 225-248.
Kwang-Yul Seo. Nietzsche’s Thought of Science and Culture. Journal of Humanities. 2016; 63 225-248.
Kwang-Yul Seo. Nietzsche’s Thought of Science and Culture. 2016; 63 : 225-248.
Kwang-Yul Seo. "Nietzsche’s Thought of Science and Culture" Journal of Humanities no.63(2016) : 225-248.
