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224Beauty is false, truth ugly: Nietzsche on art and lifeIn Daniel Came (ed.), Nietzsche on Art and Life, Oxford University Press. 2014.Against the claim that Nietzsche’s early and late views on confronting the truth about human existence differ widely, this article argues that in The Birth of Tragedy tragic art is affirmative of life and not limited to beautifying illusion, while later works still contain the idea that artistic production of beauty is a falsification necessary to make existence bearable for us. Nietzsche did not start with the view that art’s value lies in sheer illusion, nor end with the view that truth should…Read more
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49Nietzsche's Psychology as a Refinement of Plato'sJournal of Nietzsche Studies 45 (1): 12-21. 2014.In their recent book The Soul of Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil, Maudemarie Clark and David Dudrick claim that Nietzsche takes Plato’s theory of the soul to be ‘a hypothesis, which his own psychology is an attempt to refine’. This essay accepts that claim, but argues for a more streamlined account of the relation between Nietzsche and Plato than Clark and Dudrick give. There is no justification for their suggestion that Nietzsche diagnoses an ‘atomistic need’ as responsible for what he objects…Read more
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24Better Consciousness: Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Value (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2009._Better Consciousness: Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Value_ reassesses Schopenhauer's aesthetics and ethics and their contemporary relevance. Features a collection of new essays from leading Schopenhauer scholars Explores a relatively neglected area of Schopenhauer's philosophy Offers a new perspective on a great thinker who crystallized the pessimism of the nineteenth century and has many points of contact with twenty-first century thought
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103Arts and crafts in Plato and CollingwoodJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 50 (1): 45-54. 1992.R.G. Collingwood argues that what is properly called 'art' shares none of the features of craft. This article looks critically at his attribution to Plato of the sharply contrasting view that poetry is simply a craft. There is an important sense in which poetry is not a craft (techne) for Plato. Moreover, Plato's views are much closer to Collingwood's own than Collingwood appreciates.
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176Willing and Nothingness: Schopenhauer as Nietzsche’s Educator (edited book)Clarendon Press. 1998.This new collection enriches our understanding of Nietzsche's philosophy by examining his relationship with Schopenhauer. Eight leading scholars contribute specially written essays in which Nietzsche's changing conceptions of pessimism, tragedy, art, morality, truth, knowledge, religion, atheism, determinism, the will, and the self are revealed as responses to the work of the thinker he called his "great teacher.".
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8Schopenhauer: Parerga and Paralipomena: Volume 2: Short Philosophical Essays (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2015.With the publication of Parerga and Paralipomena in 1851, there finally came some measure of the fame that Schopenhauer thought was his due. Described by Schopenhauer himself as 'incomparably more popular than everything up till now', Parerga is a miscellany of essays addressing themes that complement his work The World as Will and Representation, along with more divergent, speculative pieces. It includes essays on method, logic, the intellect, Kant, pantheism, natural science, religion, educati…Read more
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Review of MAGEE, B. "The Philosophy of Schopenhauer" (review)Mind 93 (n/a): 608. 1984.Book review.
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70Review of: The Gay Science (Cambridge University Press) (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 1. 2002.Review of Nietzsche, Friedrich, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs, ed. Bernard Williams, trans. Josefine Nauckhoff, poems trans. Adrian Del Caro, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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5History of Philosophy: The Analytical IdealAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 62 (1): 169-208. 1988.
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159Self and world in Schopenhauer's philosophyOxford University Press. 1989.Janaway provides a detailed and critical account of Schopenhauer's central philosophical achievement: his account of the self and its relation to the world of objects. The author's approach to this theme is historical, yet is designed to show the philosophical interest of such an approach. He explores in unusual depth Schopenhauer's often ambivalent relation to Kant, and highlights the influence of Schopenhauer's view of self and world on Wittgenstein and Nietzsche, as well as tracing the many p…Read more
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29Beyond selflessness in ethics and inquiryJournal of Nietzsche Studies 35 (1): 124-140. 2008.One feature of my book (Beyond Selflessness: Reading Nietzsche's Genealogy) that is perhaps worth some comment is the historical background that I place Nietzsche against.2 It is noteworthy, I think, that in GM P, Nietzsche mentions just two thinkers as his antagonists: Schopenhauer and Rée. My aim was to take these thinkers, the former still somewhat underread by Nietzsche commentators (though the situation is improving) and the latter very poorly studied until recently, and map out Nietzsche’s…Read more
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3Review of Joseph Margolis, Art and Philosophy: Conceptual Issues in Aesthetics (1981). (review)Mind 93 (370): 294-296. 1984.
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12Review of: Howard Caygill, Art of Judgement (1989)Philosophical Books 32 (3): 186-187. 1991.Review of Caygill's book.
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64Nietzsche on Free Will, Autonomy and the Sovereign IndividualAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 80 (1): 339-357. 2006.[Ken Gemes] In some texts Nietzsche vehemently denies the possibility of free will; in others he seems to positively countenance its existence. This paper distinguishes two different notions of free will. Agency free will is intrinsically tied to the question of agency, what constitutes an action as opposed to a mere doing. Deserts free will is intrinsically tied to the question of desert, of who does and does not merit punishment and reward. It is shown that we can render Nietzsche's prima faci…Read more
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7Review of Julian Young, Willing and Unwilling: A Study in the Philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer (review)International Studies in Philosophy 24 (1): 151-152. 1992.
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6Reading Philosophy: Selected Texts with a Method for BeginnersWiley-Blackwell. 2002.This flexible introductory textbook explores several key themes in philosophy, and helps the reader learn to engage with the key arguments by introducing and analysing a selection of classic readings. Fully integrated introductory text with readings for beginning students of philosophy. Each chapter focusses on a core philosophical topic, and contains an introduction to the topic, 2 classic readings and interactive commentaries on the readings. An introductory book which doesn't merely _tell_ th…Read more
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15The Subject and the Objective OrderProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 84. 1984.The paper examines the alleged problem of locating the 'I' of self-consciousness in the world conceived objectively. It discusses the views of Nagel, Evans, Schopenhauer, and Wittgenstein among others.
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90Kant's aesthetics and the `empty cognitive stock'Philosophical Quarterly 47 (189): 459-476. 1997.It is sometimes assumed that Kant’s claim that a judgement of taste is grounded in a pleasure ‘without concepts’ leaves little room for any credible account of critical judgements of art. I argue that even Kant’s conception of free (as opposed to dependent) beauty can provide the framework for an analysis of aesthetic judgements about art works. It is a matter of understanding what roles for concepts Kant prohibits in his analysis of pure judgements of taste: conceptual cognition must be neither…Read more
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Schopenhauer: Subject, Object, and WillDissertation, Oxford University. 1983.DPhil thesis submitted 1983.
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446Guilt, bad conscience, and self-punishment in Nietzsche's GenealogyIn Brian Leiter & Neil Sinhababu (eds.), Nietzsche and morality, Oxford University Press. pp. 138--54. 2007.The article provides a commentary on the Second Treatise of Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality, entitled '"Guilt, "Bad Conscience," and Related Matters'. The Treatise's central train of thought is that having a bad conscience or feeling guilty is a way in which we satisfy a fundamental need to inflict cruelty. This is achieved by turning the exercise of cruelty inwards, upon the self rather than others, and by interpreting such a cruelty as a legitimate form of punishment of oneself.
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23Schopenhauer and Nietzsche: is the will merely a word?In Thomas Pink & Martin William Francis Stone (eds.), The Will and Human Action: From Antiquity to the Present Day, Routledge. pp. 172-96. 2003.The article discusses Schopehauer's conception of the will and Nietzsche's critical reception of it.
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49Beauty in nature, beauty in artBritish Journal of Aesthetics 33 (4): 321-332. 1993.The article argues against various proposals to treat the term 'beauty' as standing for a single, generic concept of aesthetic value, which has application both to natural objects and to art. It argues that in Kant's aesthetic theory 'beauty' must be treated as ambiguous because in the case of art, but not in that of nature, part of beauty is the expession of aesthetic ideas. This gives rise to the dilemma: either beauty is always the ultimate aesthetic value of any thing, in which case there is…Read more
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162Necessity, Responsibility and Character: Schopenhauer on Freedom of the WillKantian Review 17 (3): 431-457. 2012.This paper gives an account of the argument of Schopenhauer's essay On the Freedom of the Human Will, drawing also on his other works. Schopenhauer argues that all human actions are causally necessitated, as are all other events in empirical nature, hence there is no freedom in the sense of liberum arbitrium indifferentiae. However, our sense of responsibility or agency (being the ) is nonetheless unshakeable. To account for this Schopenhauer invokes the Kantian distinction between empirical and…Read more
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18Schopenhauer: Parerga and Paralipomena: Volume 1: Short Philosophical Essays (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2014.With the publication of the Parerga and Paralipomena in 1851, there finally came some measure of the fame that Schopenhauer thought was his due. Described by Schopenhauer himself as 'incomparably more popular than everything up till now', the Parerga is a miscellany of essays addressing themes that complement his work The World as Will and Representation, along with more divergent, speculative pieces. It includes his 'Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life', reflections on fate and clairvoyance, trench…Read more
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35Affect and cognition in Schopenhauer and NietzscheIn Alix Cohen & Robert Stern (eds.), Thinking About the Emotions: A Philosophical History, Oxford University Press. pp. 206-222. 2017.Schopenhauer defends the view that emotions impair cognition, while Nietzsche apparently replies that they are ineliminable from cognition, and that they enhance it. Schopenhauer argues that human individuals are naturally disposed to comprehend their environment in affective terms. At the same time, his evaluative position concerning this relation is negative: cognition is spoiled, warped, or tainted by its inability to shake off the emotions, desires, or drives that belong to human nature. Hum…Read more
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8Will and natureIn The Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer, Cambridge University Press. pp. 138--170. 1999.The chapter examines aspects of Schopenhauer's central concept of will: the role of will in relation to action and to sexual drive, the argument that the individual has no freedom of will, the notion of the will or 'will to life' as the 'inner nature' of the individual, and the notion that the will is the thing in itself.
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148Naturalism and value in Nietzsche (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 71 (3). 2005.
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2Review of: MARGOLIS, J. "Art and Philosophy:Conceptual Issues in Aesthetics" (review)Mind 93 (n/a): 294. 1984.Book Review.
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