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6Dawn and the PoliticalIn Carol Diethe, Keith Ansell‐Pearson & Rebecca Bamford (eds.), Nietzsche’s Dawn: Philosophy, Ethics, and the Passion of Knowledge, Wiley. 2020.Nietzsche's wider political thinking has been widely recognized as therapeutic in orientation, as part of its connection to the history of psychology. This chapter examines the remarks that Nietzsche does make with respect to the political in Dawn, focusing on his concern with the effects on humanity of capital and industrial development upon Europeans. It explores his remarks on migration as a therapeutic measure for the workers of Europe and considers some of the problematic claims involved in…Read more
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5The German Enlightenment, Knowledge, and the Passion of KnowledgeIn Carol Diethe, Keith Ansell‐Pearson & Rebecca Bamford (eds.), Nietzsche’s Dawn: Philosophy, Ethics, and the Passion of Knowledge, Wiley. 2020.This chapter examines the consequences of Nietzsche's campaign against morality for the pursuit of knowledge in philosophy, and specifically, on values and methods of the German Enlightenment. In Dawn, Nietzsche explores how an experimental approach to knowing and to knowledge involves us in adopting different ways of being toward things in the world, as well as toward ourselves and our experiences, and in using associated diverse methods of inquiry. Nietzsche's free‐spirit writings, including D…Read more
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5Nietzsche on Epicurus and DeathIn Carol Diethe, Keith Ansell‐Pearson & Rebecca Bamford (eds.), Nietzsche’s Dawn: Philosophy, Ethics, and the Passion of Knowledge, Wiley. 2020.This chapter examines Nietzsche's remarks on Epicurus in the earlier middle writings, to provide an interpretative framework through which to clarify Nietzsche's thinking on death in Dawn. It considers some points of continuity between Nietzsche's account of death in Dawn and in his later texts. Nietzsche champions Epicurus as a figure who has sought to show mankind how it can conquer its fears of death. The chapter contends that Nietzsche uses Epicurean thinking as a strategy to do his work in …Read more
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5Nietzsche's Campaign Against MoralityIn Carol Diethe, Keith Ansell‐Pearson & Rebecca Bamford (eds.), Nietzsche’s Dawn: Philosophy, Ethics, and the Passion of Knowledge, Wiley. 2020.This chapter examines the basis of Nietzsche's campaign against customary morality in Dawn. It consider what problems there are with mounting a successful campaign against morality, and to what extent Nietzsche's campaign against morality leaves room for a positive ethics. The chapter shows that Nietzsche's fundamental concern is that morality as it currently stands is bad for humans. The basic problem with the campaign against morality that Nietzsche pursues in the original aphorisms of Dawn ca…Read more
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5Aeronauts of the SpiritIn Carol Diethe, Keith Ansell‐Pearson & Rebecca Bamford (eds.), Nietzsche’s Dawn: Philosophy, Ethics, and the Passion of Knowledge, Wiley. 2020.This chapter discusses how the final aphorism, 575, of Nietszsche's Dawn, presents a positive vision of humanity as future‐oriented and self‐cultivating. It explores how Nietzsche's vision of humanity as future‐oriented and self‐creating is taken up once again by him in his later writings. In the final aphorism Nietzsche's use of the symbolism of flight is significant. This final aphorism is entitled "We aeronauts of the spirit". As Duncan Large has pointed out, the aeronauts in the aphorism are…Read more
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4IndexIn Carol Diethe, Keith Ansell‐Pearson & Rebecca Bamford (eds.), Nietzsche’s Dawn: Philosophy, Ethics, and the Passion of Knowledge, Wiley. 2020.The prelims comprise: Half‐Title Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Table of Contents Acknowledgments Editions of Nietzsche's Writings Used with Abbreviations.
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3The Virtue of Shame: Defending Nietzsche’s critique of MitleidIn Gudrun von Tevenar (ed.), Nietzsche and Ethics, Peter Lang Verlag. 2007.I argue that moral intuitions about Nietzsche as an exemplar of practical cruelty can be overturned. My argument is based upon the possibility of abandoning the notion of pure and unmediated passivity as intrinsic to the phenomena of human suffering and of Mitleid, as identified by Nietzsche. I claim that wrongly identifying intrinsic passivity in the phenomenology of Mitleid and of suffering generates the moral sceptical intuition. Once this case of mistaken identity is uncovered, 1 suggest, th…Read more
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3Nietzsche's aestheticism and the value of sufferingIn Paul Bishop & Roger H. Stephenson (eds.), Cultural studies and the symbolic: occasional papers in Cassirer and cultural theory studies, presented at the University of Glasgow's Centre for Intercultural Studies, Northern Universities Press. 2003.
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3Nietzsche on SubjectivityIn Carol Diethe, Keith Ansell‐Pearson & Rebecca Bamford (eds.), Nietzsche’s Dawn: Philosophy, Ethics, and the Passion of Knowledge, Wiley. 2020.This chapter clarifies several of the main aspects of Nietzsche's work on subjectivity, self, and drives in Dawn. It shows how Nietzsche's thinking on subjectivity, the self, and drives in Dawn emerges from his affirmation of the Enlightenment spirit, his hope for a new enlightenment, and his critical engagement with morality. The chapter examines the skeptical dimension of Nietzsche's thinking on subjectivity and the self. It points out how Nietzsche criticizes some of common presumptions about…Read more
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2IntroductionIn Carol Diethe, Keith Ansell‐Pearson & Rebecca Bamford (eds.), Nietzsche’s Dawn: Philosophy, Ethics, and the Passion of Knowledge, Wiley. 2020.Many of Nietzsche's texts, particularly those that form part of his later writings, have received significant individual attention within English‐speaking Nietzsche studies. This chapter argues that Nietzsche's core critical innovations in Dawn are in identifying why customary morality is a significant problem for humanity, and in developing a sustained critique of this form of morality in order to motivate critical re‐engagement with the ethical. In Dawn, Nietzsche attacks the view that everyth…Read more
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2Just how cognitive is emotion? The continuing importance of the philosophy of emotion in enhancement ethicsAmerican Journal of Bioethics-Neuroscience 4 (1): 18-19. 2013.
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1Ecce Homo: Philosophical Autobiography in the FleshIn Duncan Large & Nicholas Martin (eds.), Nietzsche’s “Ecce Homo”, De Gruyter. 2021.
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The Nietzsche Diet and Dr Atkins’s ScienceIn Lisa Heldke, Kerri Mommer & Cynthia Pineo (eds.), The Atkins Diet and Philosophy, Open Court. 2005.
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DawnIn Paul Katsafanas (ed.), Routledge Philosophical Minds: The Nietzschean Mind, Routledge. pp. 37-52. 2018.
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