La interpretación de la naturaleza: metafísica y teleología. Nietzsche lector de Platón

Abstract

Metaphysics can be understood as a discipline whose object is the intelligible entities, but it is also an interpretation of nature, which is its real beginning as Plato ́s «second sailing». Nietzsche ́s inversion of Platonism has in the critique of finalism one of its main points. The opposition apparent/true world, from this perspective, can be explained in terms of the absence or presence of teleology in the interpretation of nature, but in Nietzsche ́s view finalism belongs to the apparent and not to the real world. Leaving aside his critique and the genealogy that he attributes to Platonism, his interpretation of Plato ́s philosophy in this point in accurate, because Plato tried to deliver with his theory of ideas a conception of the real causes of becoming, based on the categories of finality and unity, just what he called his «second sailing», as an alternative to the theory of nature proposed by Presocratic philosophy.

Keywords

• plato
• nietzsche
• nature
• metaphysics
• teology
• finalism
• chance