ABSTRACT
The issue of "truth" is of central importance to Nietzsche. For Nietzsche, the advent of modem experimental science represents a decisive step in the history of metaphysics. For science turns its attention away from the Platonic-Christian "world of being" toward the "world of becoming" — the spatio-temporal, physical, natural, and empirical world. The scientific revolution, then, brings us closer to an affirmation of what Nietzsche calls "a pure, newly discovered, newly redeemed nature" and a restoration of what he terms the "innocence of becoming". Nietzsche's arguments against these various scientific theories are manifold and complex; and a discussion of his philosophy of science and nature would take us too far afield. Nietzsche conceives of his task as a continuation and radicalization of the project of modem science, which turned the intellect's attention away from the other-worldly claims of Platonism and Christianity toward the earthly domain of nature and becoming.
