Nietzsche and contemporary Physics

Abstract

This paper tries to show the common issues that can be established between Nietzsche andtwo important figures of the contemporary Physics as Heisenberg and Prigogine. Thesethree authors agree in underlining: a) The continuity between Philosophy and Physics;b) The centrality of the historical perspective; c) The deciding role of the subjectivity whenattempting to explain the nature, and d) The neglect of the objectivist ideal and of theparadigm of certainty. In the base of these agreements underlies a conception that findstheir soundest arguments in Darwin’s theory of evolution: since the man is a part of thenature, it is not reasonable to consider nature as an object that had nothing to do withthe man.

Nietzsche, Heisenberg, Prigogine, Physics, Darwinism.