Nietzsche contends, The Gay Science, (Kaufman
translation 1974, p.167) that “There are no laws in nature, only necessities.”
He does not deny the existence of regularities in nature but he contends that
there is no regulative divine authority in charge of the process. Thus he
writes: “There is nobody who commands, nobody who obeys, nobody who
trespasses.” (Ibid., pp. 167-168.) And, “The total character of the world is in
all eternity, chaos. Form, beauty wisdom, arrangement and whatever other terms
we employ are there for our aesthetic anthropomorphism.”(Ibid).
Then, does it follow that all those aesthetic terms I use to gauge my performance
are just man-made, regulative? Yes, the chains of language.
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