ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the general issue of how Friedrich Nietzsche imagined the relation between science and art and their tense union in future philosophy. His critiques of both teleological and mechanistic accounts of organic development have certainly been discussed in the secondary literature. Although Nietzsche does not begin to use the term in his published writings until Thus Spoke Zarathustra, his earlier account of the Greek agon foreshadows the idea of ‘will to power’. Nietzsche’s anticipated gay science combines both the conscience of the scientist with the exploitation of creative energies manifest in the dynamic process of struggle, resistance, and growth that characterizes all life. Both Christoph Cox and Wolfgang Muller-Lauter have recognized that Nietzsche’s alternative account of development is indebted to his study of Heraclitus. Nietzsche’s Heraclitean solution allows for the intelligibility of aims, goals and purposes as immanent to the justice or law that makes a struggle or conflict possible.
