Nietzsche And The Problem Of Morality

Author : Brian Leiter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317635857

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Nietzsche on Morality by Brian Leiter Pdf

Both an introduction to Nietzsche’s moral philosophy, and a sustained commentary on his most famous work, On the Genealogy of Morality, this book has become the most widely used and debated secondary source on these topics over the past dozen years. Many of Nietzsche’s most famous ideas - the "slave revolt" in morals, the attack on free will, perspectivism, "will to power" and the "ascetic ideal" - are clearly analyzed and explained. The first edition established the centrality of naturalism to Nietzsche’s philosophy, generating a substantial scholarly literature to which Leiter responds in an important new Postscript. In addition, Leiter has revised and refreshed the book throughout, taking into account new scholarly literature, and revising or clarifying his treatment of such topics as the objectivity of value, epiphenomenalism and consciousness, and the possibility of "autonomous" agency.

Author : Frank Cameron
Publisher : New York : P. Lang
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015061473289

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Nietzsche and the 'problem' of Morality by Frank Cameron Pdf

This book examines Nietzsche's views on morality in order to assess his contribution to moral philosophy. Frank Cameron explores Nietzsche's understanding of morality, the infamous 'campaign against morality, ' and his engagement with key figures in moral philosophy, including the influences of Schopenhauer and Rée, as well as the main figures representing the three major ethical traditions - Kant, Mill, and Aristotle. Cameron argues that Nietzsche's fundamental 'ethical' preoccupation with 'higher type' forms the basis of his ethic of human flourishing, but refutes that Nietzsche's positive morality fits comfortably within the moral tradition. In particular, Cameron challenges the attempts to situate Nietzsche within the tradition of virtue ethics. Nietzsche defends his affirmative ethic by presenting the character of Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra) and later himself (Ecce Homo) as exemplars of human excellence who must rely on their ability to convince others performatively, rather than by means of discourse or argumentation.

Author : Richard Schacht
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520914049

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Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality by Richard Schacht Pdf

Written at the height of the philosopher's intellectual powers, Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals has become one of the key texts of recent Western philosophy. Its essayistic style affords a unique opportunity to observe many of Nietzsche's persisting concerns coming together in an illuminating constellation. A profound influence on psychoanalysis, antihistoricism, and poststructuralism and an abiding challenge to ethical theory, Nietzsche's book addresses many of the major philosophical problems and possibilities of modernity. In this unique collection focusing on the Genealogy, twenty-five notable philosophers offer diverse discussions of the book's central themes and concepts. They explore such notions as ressentiment, asceticism, "slave" and "master" moralities, and what Nietzsche calls "genealogy" and its relation to other forms of inquiry in his work. The book presents a cross section of contemporary Nietzsche scholarship and philosophical investigation that is certain to interest philosophers, intellectual and cultural historians, and anyone concerned with one of the master thinkers of the modern age.

Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1977-01-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781440674198

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The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche Pdf

The works of Friedrich Nietzsche have fascinated readers around the world ever since the publication of his first book more than a hundred years ago. As Walter Kaufmann, one of the world’s leading authorities on Nietzsche, notes in his introduction, “Few writers in any age were so full of ideas,” and few writers have been so consistently misinterpreted. The Portable Nietzsche includes Kaufmann’s definitive translations of the complete and unabridged texts of Nietzsche’s four major works: Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, Nietzsche Contra Wagner and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. In addition, Kaufmann brings together selections from his other books, notes, and letters, to give a full picture of Nietzsche’s development, versatility, and inexhaustibility. “In this volume, one may very conveniently have a rich review of one of the most sensitive, passionate, and misunderstood writers in Western, or any, literature.” —Newsweek

Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199537082

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On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche Pdf

In 'On the Genealogy of Morals', Nietzsche exposes 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.

Author : Friedrich Nietzsche,Maudemarie Clark,Alan J. Swensen
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998-03-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0872202836

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On the Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche,Maudemarie Clark,Alan J. Swensen Pdf

On the Genealogy of Morality contains some of Nietzsche's most disturbing ideas and images: eg the 'slave revolt' in morality, which he claims began with the Jews and has now triumphed, and the 'blond beast' that must erupt, which he claims to find behind all civilisation. It is therefore a major source for understanding why 'Nietzschean' ideas are controversial. Further, it is one of Nietzsche's most important books, a work of his maturity that shows him at the height of his powers both as a thinker and as an artist in the presentation of ideas.

Author : Brian Leiter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192571793

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Moral Psychology with Nietzsche by Brian Leiter Pdf

Brian Leiter defends a set of radical ideas from Nietzsche: there is no objectively true morality, there is no free will, no one is ever morally responsible, and our conscious thoughts and reasoning play almost no significant role in our actions and how our lives unfold. He presents a new interpretation of main themes of Nietzsche's moral psychology, including his anti-realism about value (including epistemic value), his account of moral judgment and its relationship to the emotions, his conception of the will and agency, his scepticism about free will and moral responsibility, his epiphenomenalism about certain kinds of conscious mental states, and his views about the heritability of psychological traits. In combining exegesis with argument, Leiter engages the views of philosophers like Harry Frankfurt, T. M. Scanlon, and Gary Watson, and psychologists including Daniel Wegner, Benjamin Libet, and Stanley Milgram. Nietzsche emerges not simply as a museum piece from the history of ideas, but as a philosopher and psychologist who exceeds David Hume for insight into human nature and the human mind, repeatedly anticipates later developments in empirical psychology, and continues to offer sophisticated and unsettling challenges to much conventional wisdom in both philosophy and psychology.

Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486111896

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The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche Pdf

Major work on ethics, by one of the most influential thinkers of the last 2 centuries, deals with master/slave morality and modern man's moral practices; the evolution of man's feelings of guilt; and ascetic ideals.

Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001-11-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139429863

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Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche Pdf

Beyond Good and Evil is one of the most scathing and powerful critiques of philosophy, religion, science, politics and ethics ever written. In it, Nietzsche presents a set of problems, criticisms and philosophical challenges that continue both to inspire and to trouble contemporary thought. In addition, he offers his most subtle, detailed and sophisticated account of the virtues, ideas, and practices which will characterize philosophy and philosophers of the future. With his relentlessly energetic style and tirelessly probing manner, Nietzsche embodies the type of thought he wants to foster, while defining its historical role and determining its agenda. This edition offers a new and readable translation, by Judith Norman, of one of the most influential texts in the history of philosophy, together with an introduction by Rolf-Peter Horstmann that sets it in its historical and philosophical context.

Author : Christopher Phillips
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780393078824

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Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy by Christopher Phillips Pdf

"A bracing, rollicking read about the spark that ignites when people start asking meaningful questions." —O Magazine Christopher Phillips is a man on a mission: to revive the love of questions that Socrates inspired long ago in ancient Athens. "Like a Johnny Appleseed with a master's degree, Phillips has gallivanted back and forth across America, to cafés and coffee shops, senior centers, assisted-living complexes, prisons, libraries, day-care centers, elementary and high schools, and churches, forming lasting communities of inquiry" (Utne Reader). Phillips not only presents the fundamentals of philosophical thought in this "charming, Philosophy for Dummies-type guide" (USA Today); he also recalls what led him to start his itinerant program and re-creates some of the most invigorating sessions, which come to reveal sometimes surprising, often profound reflections on the meaning of love, friendship, work, growing old, and others among Life's Big Questions. "How to Start Your Own Socrates Café" guide included.

Author : Christopher Janaway,Simon Robertson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199583676

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Nietzsche, Naturalism, and Normativity by Christopher Janaway,Simon Robertson Pdf

This volume comprises ten original essays on Nietzsche, one of the western canon's most controversial ethical thinkers. An international team of experts clarify Nietzsche's own views, both critical and positive, ethical and meta-ethical, and connect his philosophical concerns to contemporary debates in and about ethics, normativity, and value.

Author : Simon May
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139502207

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Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality by Simon May Pdf

On the Genealogy of Morality is Nietzsche's most influential, provocative, and challenging work of ethics. In this volume of newly commissioned essays, fourteen leading philosophers offer fresh insights into many of the work's central questions: How did our dominant values originate and what functions do they really serve? What future does the concept of 'evil' have - and can it be revalued? What sorts of virtues and ideals does Nietzsche advocate, and are they necessarily incompatible with aspirations to democracy and a free society? What are the nature, role, and scope of genealogy in his critique of morality - and why doesn't his own evaluative standard receive a genealogical critique? Taken together, this superb collection illuminates what a post-Christian and indeed post-moral life might look like, and asks to what extent Nietzsche's Genealogy manages to move beyond morality.

Author : Richard John White
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0252066030

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Nietzsche and the Problem of Sovereignty by Richard John White Pdf

From The Birth of Tragedy on, Nietzsche worked to comprehend the nature of the individual. Richard White shows how Nietzsche was inspired and guided by the question of personal "sovereignty" and how through his writings he sought to provoke the very sovereignty he described. White argues that Nietzsche is a philosopher our contemporary age must therefore come to understand if we are ever to secure a genuinely meaningful direction for the future. Profoundly relevant to our era, Nietzsche's philosophy addresses a version of individuality that allows us to move beyond the self-dispossession of mass society and the alternative of selfish individualism--to fully understand how one becomes what one is. A volume in the International Nietzsche Studies series, edited by Richard Schacht

Author : R. Motson Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258079755

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Nietzsche and Christian Ethics by R. Motson Thompson Pdf

Author : Edgar Evalt Sleinis
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 025206383X

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Nietzsche's Revaluation of Values by Edgar Evalt Sleinis Pdf

Nietzsche's Revaluation of Values is an assessment of Nietzsche's challenging plan to revalue all values, including knowledge, morality, religion, art, and the state. E. E. Sleinis analyzes the success of Nietzsche's enterprise as well as its inadequacies; among the positive contributions he singles out Nietzsche's theory of value, his conception of higher-order values, and his conception of the maximally affirmative attitude as creations of enduring importance.