:: Chaos Sive Natura (SF.011.eng)
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The present work does not have a starting point but many starting points, centres of strength and lines of movement that compose it. One of the dynamic points is shown by the title: Chaos Sive Natura. It is a Nietzschean paraphrase of an expression by Spinoza, Deus Sive Natura, God thus Nature, in his main work Ethica more geometrico demonstrata. For Spinoza, Nature is theophanic: God is immanent to nature. Nietzsche, who considered Spinoza a forerunner of his philosophy, radicalizes the formula of equality between nature and deity with a more sinister expression, Chaos Sive Natura. Such a variation and removal occurred in 1881 in Sils-Maria in the same period when Nietzsche wrote of himself “I am one of those machines which can explode” and at the same time when, crying and singing of joy, he created the concept of Eternal Recurrence. (...)
