ABSTRACT

Nietzsche wills to overcome metaphysics by establishing the primacy of the body and the world of change. The metaphysical need leads to a fundamental falsification of all that occurs. It forces human thinking to a rejection of change and life itself. It reduces thinking to a belief in fictions which arise out of the need for fixity, namely, a belief in lawfulness, ideas and purposefulness. Logic is of human making. It is a structuring response to a seeming chaos of complex happenings. Necessity recognizes the tragedy inherent within change and it must create something beautiful out of it. It recognizes that the "true" world is full of falsehood, cruelty, contradiction and senselessness. Necessity is a given; everything is necessary. Accidentality is an illusion. When the human being sees things "from a height," he recognizes that all is necessary.