Doesn't Nietzsche Prove the Stoics Wrong About Nature? - Answers to Common Questions (Stoicism)

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This is a short answer to the common question: Doesn't Nietzsche prove the Stoics wrong about nature?

The simple answer is quite simply No. Friedrich Nietzsche does criticize the Stoic position on nature, and living in accordance with nature, but that does not amount to proving that the Stoic position is wrong.

As I discuss in the video, Nietzsche has a very different conception of what nature, human nature, and life are, and much of his criticism amounts to saying that the Stoics do not share his conception, so that they are wrong.

He also attacks them for making what he takes to be a vacuous statement - that one ought to live in accordance with life. His third criticism is that they simply project their views and desires onto nature, finding there what they put there.

It could, of course, be the case that both the Stoics and Nietzsche are actually wrong about nature. But Nietzsche's often-cited passage from Beyond Good and Evil does not provide good reason to think that the Stoics actually do have matters wrong

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