Download or read book Nietzsche and the French Moralists written by Brendan Donnellan and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nietzsche and the French Moralists written by Brendan Peter Donnellan and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nietzsche and the French Moralists written by Brendan Donnellan and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Descent and Dissent written by Ruth Abbey and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 1994 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pleasure as a First Principle written by Jiani Fan and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My dissertation examines themes closely related to psychological examination (Seelenprufung) in the works of the French moralists and of Nietzsche. My two principal claims are that psychological examination is the most important philosophical method and the basic structure of life experience for Nietzsche, and that his hermeneutics of suspicion is grounded in psychological examination drawn from the French moralists. Their method of interpretation unmasked false consciousness and self-interested intention, and further detected disguised pleasure in the heroic virtues of honesty and Christian morality. For La Rochefoucauld and Pascal, the notion that magnanimity and other Stoic virtues were motivated by pleasure and by other postlapsarian self-interests served to persuade members of a worldly society to pursue Christian beatitude. Nietzsche, inspired more in this area by Montaigne, denies any other-worldly comfort. He advocates amor fati (love of fate) and this-worldly cheerfulness (Heiterkeit) and urges readers to pluck useful maxims from the thorniest stretches of their lives to alleviate the burden of living. Cheerfulness thus functions as an antidote for Nietzsche against the moralists' austere search for other-worldly consolation. I focus on the notions and aphorisms related to symptoms, methods of therapy and remedies in the psychological observation. In investigating classical notions such as pleasure, Virgil's belief that "everyone is driven by his pleasure," the punning but crucial variant on Horace's "saying something true with laughter," as well as Heiterkeit (cheerfulness) and "mask" and "self-deception" in the dialogues among these authors. In sum, through these themes, I probe the concept of pleasure in the genealogy of (im)morality and (a)theism among the French moralists and Nietzsche.
Download or read book Nietzsche s Reclamation of Philosophy written by Kathleen J. Wininger and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nietzsche is famous for rejecting a great many standard philosophical methods. He does this on the basis of critical assessments of these methods. Nietzsche's historical critiques are justly famous but the question of what his new philosophy is often not explored. The important issue is what Nietzsche believed were some of the possibilities left for philosophy if his criticisms of previous philosophies were correct. This book is called the 'Reclamation of Philosophy' because Nietzsche is engaged in a task of reappropriating certain characteristics of past philosophies into his work. He reclaims philosophical reflection as practiced by French moralists, some Presocratic philosophers, and some German thinkers. As a mature writer he is no longer interested in philosophy simply as a place to display skill in analytic or logical reasoning. He is interested in a philosophy which can address the cultural and personal issues of people constructing themselves in their world. He is particularly interested in using philosophical talents to help to discover the values implicit in practices and assumptions which people hold. These 'values' are not just moral and aesthetic they are also epistemologically relevant. Nietzsche's Reclamation of Philosophy elucidates what Nietzsche has to say about value; particularly what he has to say about moral value, by looking at his views of aesthetic value.
Download or read book Nietzsche s Middle Period written by Ruth Abbey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-12-07 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruth Abbey presents a close study of Nietzsche's works, Human, All Too Human, Daybreak, and The Gay Science. Although these middle period works tend to be neglected in commentaries on Nietzsche, they repay careful attention. Abbey's commentary brings to light important differences across Nietzsche's oeuvre that have gone unnoticed, filling a serious gap in the literature.
Download or read book Nietzsche moraliste fran ais written by Robert Pippin and published by Odile Jacob. This book was released on 2006-02-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On comprendra bien mieux Nietzsche si, cessant de voir en lui un métaphysicien allemand ou le défenseur d’une doctrine naturaliste des instincts, on le considère comme un des grands moralistes français. Comme eux, il est d’une totale lucidité sur la fragilité et les défauts humains, mais sans le désespoir de Pascal et sans le mépris glacial de La Rochefoucauld pour « l’humain, trop humain ». À l’instar de Montaigne, il a voulu devenir un esprit sensé, férocement honnête et joyeux, quelqu’un qui parvienne à « s’acclimater sur terre ». Robert Pippin enseigne la philosophie à l’Université de Chicago. Sa réflexion porte notamment sur la tradition philosophique allemande depuis Kant et sur la modernité. Il est l’auteur de Modernism as a Philosophical Problem et de Idealism as Modernism : Hegelian Variations.
Download or read book Basic Writings written by Paul Ree and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the first English translations of The Origin of the Moral Sensations and Psychological Observations, the two most important works by the German philosopher Paul Rée. These essays present Rée’s moral philosophy, which influenced the ideas of his close friend Friedrich Nietzsche considerably. Nietzsche scholars have often incorrectly attributed to him arguments and ideas that are Rée’s and have failed to detect responses to Rée’s works in Nietzsche’s writings. Rée’s thinking combined two strands: a pessimistic conception of human nature, presented in the French moralists’ aphoristic style that would become a mainstay of Nietzsche’s own writings, and a theory of morality derived from Darwin’s theory of natural selection. Rée’s moral Darwinism was a central factor prompting Nietzsche to write On the Genealogy of Morals and the groundwork for much of today’s “evolutionary ethics.” In an illuminating critical introduction, Robin Small examines Rée’s life and work, locating his application of evolutionary concepts to morality within a broader history of Darwinism while exploring Rée’s theoretical and personal relationship with Nietzsche. In placing Nietzsche in his intellectual and social context, Small profoundly challenges the myth of Nietzsche as a solitary thinker.
Download or read book On the Genealogy of Morality written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2023-07-10 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Genealogy of Morality is a history of ethics, a text about interpreting that history, and a primer on interpretation in general. It also has elements of archaeology, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and etymology. Nietzsche’s history-based approach to the development of morality, as well as his keen understanding of how power relations—especially the role played in this process by social, class, and racial divisions—continue to shape our ethical norms and standards of behavior. His reading of history and the human capacity for rationalization anticipated, influenced, and underpinned the interpretative techniques and strategies that emerged as dominant in the humanities and social sciences over the past several decades. In this age of “alternative truths,” Nietzsche’s insight into the nature of interpretation is more valuable than ever before.
Download or read book Nietzsche Psychology and First Philosophy written by Robert B. Pippin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Expanded from a series of lectures Pippin delivered at the College de France, Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy offers a brilliant, novel, and accessible reading of this seminal thinker."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Nietzsche and the French written by William David Williams and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nietzsche the Aristocratic Rebel written by Domenico Losurdo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps no philosopher is more of a conundrum than Nietzsche, the solitary rebel, poet, wayfarer, anti-revolutionary Aufklärer and theorist of aristocratic radicalism. His accusers identify in his ‘superman’ the origins of Nazism, and thus issue an irrevocable condemnation; his defenders pursue a hermeneutics of innocence founded ultimately in allegory. In a work that constitutes the most important contribution to Nietzschean studies in recent decades, Domenico Losurdo instead pursues a less reductive strategy. Taking literally the ruthless implications of Nietzsche's anti-democratic thinking – his celebration of slavery, of war and colonial expansion, and eugenics – he nevertheless refuses to treat these from the perspective of the mid-twentieth century. In doing so, he restores Nietzsche’s works to their complex nineteenth-century context, and presents a more compelling account of the importance of Nietzsche as philosopher than can be expected from his many contemporary apologists. Translated by Gregor Benton. With an Introduction by Harrison Fluss. Originally published in Italian by Bollati Boringhieri Editore as Domenico Losurdo, Nietzsche, il ribelle aristocratico: Biografia intellettuale e bilancio critico, Turin, 2002.
Download or read book The Genealogy of Morals written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published by Livraria Press. This book was released on with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Genealogy of Morals" (Original German Title "Zur Genealogie der Moral: Eine Streitschrift') is a seminal work in which Nietzsche delves into the historical and psychological origins of moral values, continuing his arguments in Beyond Good and Evil. This book has greatly influenced Modernist thinkers like Sigmund Freud , and Post-Modern thinkers like Michel Foucault. It was very popular in France in the 20th century, further establishing a Nihilistic foundation of central European society. This work, which consists of a preface and three "treatises," is one of Nietzsche's most influential writings. They are not a collection of aphorisms like most of his other works, but longer, systematic texts with a thoroughly scientific approach: he presents sociological, historical, and psychological theses attacking Protestant Theology. Unlike the classical moral philosophers, Nietzsche does not attempt to derive or justify morality, but rather to trace the historical development and psychological preconditions of certain moral values. Thus, he does not ask how people should act, but why people (individuals or groups) believe they should act in a certain way, or want others to act in a certain way. He uses a genealogical method to trace the development of moral concepts, revealing their contingent and power-laden nature. The book is divided into three essays, each exploring different aspects of morality, including the contrast between master and slave morality, the role of guilt and guilt in the formation of conscience, and the ascetic ideal. Nietzsche's analysis in this work has had a profound influence on subsequent philosophical and cultural thought, particularly in the fields of ethics and moral psychology. The juxtaposition of a "slave morality" and a "master morality" from the first treatise has become a catchphrase, although this concept comes directly from Hegel's notion of the slave dialectic leading to absolute freedom. The third treatise, in which Nietzsche offers a detailed critique of ascetic ideals, is fundamental to the understanding of all of his later writings. First published in 1887 by the publishing house C. G. Naumann in Leipzig, Germany, this is a new 2024 translation from this original 1886 German manuscript contains a new Afterword by the Translator, a timeline of Nietzsche's life and works, an index with descriptions of his core concepts and summaries of his complete body of works. This translation is designed to allow the armchair philosopher to engage deeply with Nietzsche's works without having to be a full-time Academic. The language is modern and clean, with simplified sentence structures and diction to make Nietzsche's complex language and arguments as accessible as possible. This Reader's Edition also contains extra material that amplifies the manuscript with autobiographical, historical and linguistic context. This provides the reader a holistic view of this very enigmatic philosopher as both an introduction and an exploration of Nietzsche's works; from his general understanding of his philosophic project to an exploration of the depths of his metaphysics and unique contributions. This edition contains: • An Afterword by the Translator on the history, impact and intellectual legacy of Nietzsche • Translation notes on the original German, Latin and Greek manuscript • An index of Philosophical concepts used by Nietzsche with a focus on Existentialism and Phenomenology • A chronological list of Nietzsche's entire body of works • A detailed timeline of Nietzsche's life and works
Download or read book Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition written by Jessica Berry and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents a portrait of Nietzsche as the skeptic par excellence in the modern period, by demonstrating how a careful and informed understanding of ancient Pyrrhonism illuminates his reflections on truth, knowledge and morality, as well as the very nature and value of philosophic inquiry.
Download or read book On the Genealogy of Morals written by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. Nietzsche rewrites the former as a history of cruelty, exposing the central values of the Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality, justice - as the product of a brutal process of conditioning designed to domesticate the animal vitality of earlier cultures. The result is a book which raises profoundly disquieting issues about the violence of both ethics and interpretation. Nietzsche questions moral certainties by showing that religion and science have no claim to absolute truth, before turning on his own arguments in order to call their very presuppositions into question. The Genealogy is the most sustained of Nietzsche's later works and offers one of the fullest expressions of his characteristic concerns. This edition places his ideas within the cultural context of his own time and stresses the relevance of his work for a contemporary audience.
Download or read book BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL Modern Philosophy Series written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. In "Beyond Good and Evil” Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in their consideration of morality. The work moves into the realm "beyond good and evil" in the sense of leaving behind the traditional morality which Nietzsche subjects to a destructive critique in favour of what he regards as an affirmative approach. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history. Because of Nietzsche's evocative style and provocative ideas, his philosophy generates passionate reactions. His works remain controversial, due to varying interpretations and misinterpretations of his work. In the Western philosophy tradition, Nietzsche's writings have been described as the unique case of free revolutionary thought, that is, revolutionary in its structure and problems, although not tied to any revolutionary project Helen Zimmern (1846–1934) was naturalised British writer and translator born in Germany. She was instrumental in making European culture more accessible in English.
