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126Review: Bernard Reginster: The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism (review)Mind 118 (470): 518-522. 2009.
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578Nietzsche on morality, drives and human greatnessIn Nietzsche, Naturalism, and Normativity, Oxford University Press. pp. 183-201. 2012.Authored item in a collection of original research papers, arising out of the University of Southampton's AHRC-funded research project 'Nietzsche and Modern Moral Philosophy'
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108What’s So Good about Negation of the Will?: Schopenhauer and the Problem of the Summum BonumJournal of the History of Philosophy 54 (4): 649-669. 2016.The final part of Schopenhauer’s argument in The World as Will and Representation concerns “affirmation and negation of the will”. He argues, with a fervor that borders on the religious, that “negation of the will” is a condition of unique value, the only state that enables “true salvation, redemption from life and from suffering”. Some commentators have asserted without qualification that this condition is his “highest good.” However, Schopenhauer in fact claims that there cannot be a highest g…Read more
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35Aesthetic Autonomies: A Discussion of Paul Guyer, Kant and the Experience of FreedomKantian Review 1 151-161. 1997.There are two familiar strategic approaches to Kant's Critique of Judgement which commentators have not always found easy to combine. One would regard the work as fitting snugly into Kant's enterprise as the keystone that absorbs the forces of his theoretical and practical philosophies, uniting them and itself into a single sound structure. That Kant saw it this way is obvious from his Introduction to the Critique. But the other approach has sometimes seemed more fruitful: start with the Analyti…Read more
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15Knowledge and Tranquility: Schopenhauer on the value of artIn Dale Jacquette (ed.), Schopenhauer, Philosophy and the Arts, Cambridge University Press. pp. 39--61. 1996.The article argues that Schopenhauer seeks to defend art against Plato's critique, but that he does so by adopting two distinct strategies that to some extent conflect: a 'cognitivist strategy' according to which art provides the most objective knowledge of reality, and an 'aesthetic experience' strategy, in which there is a peculiarly aesthetic state of mind which gives our pleasure in art a value of its own. The truly unifying notion in Schopenhauer's aesthetic theory is that of tranquil, will…Read more
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58What a musical forgery isn'tBritish Journal of Aesthetics 39 (1): 62-71. 1999.The central question addressed in this article is whether anyone can make a piece of music, intending to assert falsely that it is identical with a notationally equivalent but distinct piece. It is argued that this is impossible, because we cannot regard an agent, thus described, as having fully coherent intentions and beliefs. This opposes Jerrold Levinson's view that there are no art forms whose works are strictly nonforgeable.
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6Schopenhauer: On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and Other Writings (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2013.This volume of translations unites three shorter works by Arthur Schopenhauer that expand on themes from his book The World as Will and Representation. In On the Fourfold Root he takes the principle of sufficient reason, which states that nothing is without a reason why it is, and shows how it covers different forms of explanation or ground that previous philosophers have tended to confuse. Schopenhauer regarded this study, which he first wrote as his doctoral dissertation, as an essential preli…Read more
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26History of Philosophy: The Analytical IdealAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 62 (1). 1988.A two-part symposium. Janaway's article offers an analysis and critique of a methodological assumption current in the history of philosophy, which he labels 'the Analytical Ideal'. It discusses the views of P.F. Strawson, Michael Ayres, and Richard Rorty among others.
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60The Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1999.Arthur Schopenhauer is something of a maverick figure in the history of philosophy. He produced a unique theory of the world and human existence based upon his notion of will. This collection analyses the related but distinct components of will from the point of view of epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, aesthetics, ethics, and the philosophy of psychoanalysis. This volume explores Schopenhauer's philosophy of death, his relationship to the philosophy of Kant, his use of ideas drawn …Read more
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2Review of: Aaron Ridley, Music, Value and the Passions (1995) (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 39 (2): 198-200. 1999.Review of: Aaron Ridley, Music, Value and the Passions (1995).
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61Schopenhauer: a very short introductionOxford University Press. 2002.Schopenhauer is considered to be the most readable of German philosophers. This book gives a succinct explanation of his metaphysical system, concentrating on the original aspects of his thought, which inspired many artists and thinkers including Nietzsche, Wagner, Freud, and Wittgenstein. Schopenhauer's central notion is that of the will--a blind, irrational force that he uses to interpret both the human mind and the whole of nature. Seeing human behavior as that of a natural organism governed …Read more
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