Single Idea 14826

[catalogued under 26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature]

Full Idea

In present times, man wishes to understand the lawfulness of nature in order to submit to it.

Gist of Idea

Modern man wants laws of nature in order to submit to them

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human [1878], 111)

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Human, All Too Human', ed/tr. Faber,Marion [Penguin 1994], p.84


A Reaction

They don't make philosophers like Nietzsche any more (or at least, in the analytic tradition I am following!). No one who is trying to give an analysis of the laws of nature has any interest in why we are so keen to find them. Stoics 'live by nature'.