For Carnap, see
"The Elimination of Metaphysics Through Logical Analysis of Language".
In: A. J. Ayer, ed., Logical Positivism. Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press,
pp. 60-81. Translation of Carnap 1931.
I don't think that's avaliable online.
Jim F.
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This is all a load of shit, but first, I could use some specific
references
for Carnap's evaluation of Nietszsche. I've seen stray references to
Nietzsche, but no sustained commentary.
BTW, I don't think Trotsky's 1900 essay on Nietzsche was translated into
English, unless it's happened over the past decade. I'd like to take a
look at it.
At 09:49 PM 8/20/2006 -0400, Jim Farmelant wrote:
>Thus concerning Nietzsche, it is interesting to note that while the
>logical positivist, Rudolf Carnap let loose on Heidegger in "The
>Elimination of Metaphysics Through Logical Analysis of Language," he had
>nothing but praise for Nietzsche. There, Carnap discerned similarities
>between Nietzsche's critique of metaphysics as found in say Human, All
>too Human and his own. He seems to have regarded Nietzsche as a
>"metaphyscian" who had the good sense to avoid the errors for which he
>reproached other metaphysicians. He admired the "empirical content" of
>Nietzsche's work, including especially its "historical analyses of
>specific artistic phenomena, or a historical-psychological analysis of
>morals." And he praised Nietzsche for having chosen the medium of poetry
>in such works as Thus Spake Zarathustra for presenting his ideas rather
>attempting to present them in a theoretical treatise. The fact that
>Carnap found much to praise in the work of Nietzsche is significant since
>in "The Elimination of Metaphysics Through Logical Analysis of Language,"
>Carnap went on the attack against Heidegger, whose metaphysical
>statements, Carnap dismissed as meaningless. Apparently for Carnap, part
>of Nietzsche's greatness was the fact that he used poetic means for
>expressing himself. This fit in with Carnap's view that metaphysics fails
>because it makes meaningless statements. For Carnap, language had a
>variety of functions to perform. One of those is the making cognitively
>meaningful statements. Other functions include the making of what Carnap
>described as emotive statements. Such language can express Lebensgefühl.
>Metaphysics attempts to express Lebensgefühl too but fails because it can
>only issue meaningless statements. The appropriate means for expressing
>Lebensgefühl is art rather than metaphysics, and Nietzsche was praised by
>Carnap for realizing that. For Carnap, Nietzsche was the metaphysician
>who had the greatest artistic talent.
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