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Schopenhauer as Nietzsche’s “Great Teacher” and “Antipode”In Ken Gemes & John Richardson (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche, Oxford University Press. 2013.This article examines Schopenhauer’s influence on Nietzsche’s work. It considers how Nietzsche adopted some of his central ideas from Schopenhauer, how he exploited some of Schopenhauer’s positions to suit his own purposes, and how he developed some of his ideas as alternatives to Schopenhauerian positions. Nietzsche’s first published book, The Birth of Tragedy, is based on a Schopenhauerian metaphysical framework. Schopenhauer’s principle of individuation applicable to the world of representati…Read more
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20Schopenhauer on the Inevitability of UnhappinessIn Bart Vandenabeele (ed.), A Companion to Schopenhauer, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: Schopenhauer on the Inevitability of Suffering Criticisms of Schopenhauer's Thesis that to Desire Is to Suffer The Unattainability of True Satisfaction The Inevitability of Boredom The Negative Nature of Pleasure and Satisfaction Happiness and Well‐Being Degrees of Unhappiness: The Possibility of Amelioration The Paradox of the Suspension or Negation of the Will The Inevitability of Unhappiness References Further Reading.
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15Nietzsche Disempowered: Reading the Will to Power out of Nietzsche's PhilosophyJournal of Nietzsche Studies 46 (3): 425-450. 2015.ABSTRACT In this article I confront and criticize the widespread tendency to ignore, marginalize, or dismiss without serious consideration Nietzsche's psychological hypothesis that a “will to power” is the major motivator of human behavior. I begin by separating Nietzsche's psychological hypothesis from both his occasional cosmological extension of it into an account of all processes in the world and from his power-based theory of value. And I argue that, since the psychological thesis does not …Read more
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6Barasch, Moshe. Modern Theories of Art, I: From Winkelmann To BaudelaireJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 50 (4): 340-340. 1992.
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4The Career of Philosophy; From the German Enlightenment to the Age of Darwin (review)Philosophical Review 77 (2): 245-248. 1968.
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1Pessimism and the Tragic View of LifeIn Robert C. Solomon (ed.), Reading Nietzsche, Oup Usa. pp. 104--31. 1988.
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14Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and the Redemption of Life through ArtIn Christopher Janaway (ed.), Willing and Nothingness: Schopenhauer as Nietzsche’s Educator, Clarendon Press. pp. 79--105. 1998.
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91The Hopelessness of Hedonism and the Will to PowerInternational Studies in Philosophy 18 (2): 97-112. 1986.
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55Nietzsche's Will to Power as a Psychological Thesis: Reactions to Bernard ReginsterJournal of Nietzsche Studies 43 (1): 118-129. 2012.While agreeing with Bernard Reginster that Nietzsche's advocacy of the will to power as a psychological thesis is much more fundamental than his extension of it as a cosmological or metaphysical thesis, I criticize him for failing to support this interpretation, and I attempt to supply an analysis that does support it. Then, I take issue with the common tendency to sanitize Nietzsche's theory of the will to power, to make it more palatable—and with Reginster's treatment of this issue. This leads…Read more
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66The Unconscious and the Pre-reflective Cogitoder 16. Weltkongress Für Philosophie 2 1210-1216. 1983.In this essay I critically examine Jean-Paul Sartre's theory, that all consciousness not only must have an object but also must always be self-aware, that a self-conscious "pre-reflective cogito" accompanies all consciousness. I attempt to show how this doctrine is meant to support Sarte's general rejection of the possibility of unconscious mental processes and that Sartre's arguments for the presence of such a self-conscious "pre-reflective cogito" in all consciousnesses are unsound.
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