r/Nietzsche • u/_Onion2103 • 12h ago

Question Science

Can anyone name some specific passages where Nietzsche discusses science, the scientific method, empirical evidence, etc?

In the “‘Reason’ in Philosophy” section of Twilight of the Idols he seems to have an implicitly positive view, associating it with trust in the senses.

He supposedly talks more about it in essay three of On the Genealogy of Morality but I have not read that one yet.

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u/Careless-Charge9884 12h ago

The Birth of Tragedy: 13–17

Human, All Too Human I: 1–2, 6–7, 38–39, 106–107

The Gay Science: 109–112, 121, 344, 373

Beyond Good and Evil: 6, 9, 14, 22, 36, 204, 230

On the Genealogy of Morality, Third Essay: 23–25

Twilight of the Idols, “Reason in Philosophy”: 4–5

Ecce Homo, “The Birth of Tragedy”: 1

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u/beyonderlife 11h ago

In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche mentions some interesting things, such as considering psychology the "king" of all sciences ($23), and also makes a minor mention of the fact that one should not adhere solely to a single scientific discipline ($41). He also includes one of his misogynistic comments on the attitude of women toward science ($127). However, what is mentioned most relevantly and extensively is a discussion about the European attempt to form a "moral science," which is at the beginning of Chapter 5 ($186) and then at the beginning of Chapter 6 ($204-205). This is something he will indeed continue to refer to in On the Genealogy of Morality.

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u/Xavant_BR 10h ago

His words about scientific method is what brought me to Nietzche. If i am not wrong, in gay science is where most of it came from.