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The Transformation of Nihilism - a Study of Metaphysical Truth in Nietzsche and Wittgenstein.Dissertation, City University of New York. 1985.The most fundamental concern of this study is the question of value in the modern world as the phrase "transformation of nihilism" in the title intends to indicate. ;In Part One an interpretation of the whole of Nietzsche's philosophy is offered which focuses on the link between his "metaphysical scepticism" and his assessment of the spiritual condition of the modern world under the rubric "nihilism": the disintegration of a sense of meaning and value to human life in the face of the rise of sci…Read more
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38A Bibliography of the Amarna Period and Its Aftermath: The Reigns of Akhenaten, Smenkhare, Tutankhamun and AyJournal of the American Oriental Society 113 (3): 504. 1993.
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38Wittgenstein, Language, and Education for CreativityTeaching Philosophy 19 (1): 31-46. 1996.Taking up Wittgenstein’s critique of the modern worldview, the author gives an account of the assumptions behind it and of its presence in educational institutions. This worldview is easily perpetuated and instilled in new generations through the influence of unconscious assumptions held by educators and institutions. The author argues that in order to halt its perpetuation, educators can use the classroom to change the way students think, specifically by transforming the use of language in the …Read more
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9Composing the Soul: Reaches of Nietzsche's Psychology (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 34 (1): 152-154. 1996.152 JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY 34:1 JANUARY 1996 knowing." Absolute knowing is "the human community's coming to a reflective nonmetaphysical understanding of what it must take as authoritative grounds for belief and action...". Since this involves us in a continuous dialectic, dialectic "does not end in absolute knowing; it begins the task of renewing itself". From Hegel we get "a new paradigm for philosophy...". The final chapter offers an account of the Philosophy of Right, and takes…Read more
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11A new formulation of sink strengths under steady irradiation: recombination and interference effectsPhilosophical Magazine 85 (4-7): 559-567. 2005.
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26Reply to Martin’s “A Critique of Nietzsche’s Metaphysical Scepticism”International Studies in Philosophy 19 (2): 61-65. 1987.
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26The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism (review)Review of Metaphysics 45 (3): 613-615. 1992.Nishitani was a Japanese student attending Heidegger's Freiburg lectures on Nietzsche's nihilism in the late 1930s. As a young thinker he absorbed western philosophy and literature, focusing especially on the growing tide of nineteenth- and twentieth-century voices expressing the collapse of traditional Western values and the advent of nihilism. Recognizing that the phenomenon of nihilism encompasses our human situation in a way that transcends any particular cultural tradition, the self-overcom…Read more
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29Composing the Soul: Reaches of Nietzsche's PsychologyJournal of the History of Philosophy 34 (1): 152-154. 1996.152 JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY 34:1 JANUARY 1996 knowing." Absolute knowing is "the human community's coming to a reflective nonmetaphysical understanding of what it must take as authoritative grounds for belief and action..." . Since this involves us in a continuous dialectic, dialectic "does not end in absolute knowing; it begins the task of renewing itself" . From Hegel we get "a new paradigm for philosophy..." . The final chapter offers an account of the Philosophy of Right, and ta…Read more
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4Robert E. Carter, Becoming Bamboo: Western and Eastern Explorations of the Meaning of Life Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 13 (3): 81-83. 1993.
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21Transformative Philosophy: a study of Sankara, Fichte, and HeideggerMetaphilosophy 17 (4): 363-370. 1986.
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30From Nietzsche to Wittgenstein: The Problem of Truth and Nihilism in the Modern WorldPeter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. 1989.This fascinating study offers a complete interpretation of the philosophies of both Nietzsche and Wittgenstein. It finds in Nietzsche's philosophy an expression of the scepticism and relativism of the modern world to which he gave the name «nihilism.» If Nietzsche's conclusion that «there is no truth» poses the basic problematic of modernity, Professor Martin understands Wittgenstein's philosophy as addressing, in a radically new way, the overcoming of this nihilism. Martin offers a new interpre…Read more