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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844– 1900) is one of the most important philosophers of the last two hundred years, whose writings, both published and unpublished, have had a formative influence on vir-tually all aspects of modern culture. This volume offers introductory essays on all of Nietzsche’s completed works and also his unpublished notebooks.
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- Ideas of Interest from Beyond Good and Evil
- [Origin of Aristocracy]
- [Higher Class of Being]
- [Life Denial]
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- [Master Morality]
- [Slave Morality]
- [Creation of Values]
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“Every elevation of the type man, has hitherto been the work of an aristocratic society and so. . . requiring slavery in one form or an-other.”
How does Nietzsche explain the origins of society? What are the es-sential characteristics of a healthy society? Nietzsche states that a consequence of the “Will to Power” is the ex-ploitation of man by man, and this exploitation is the essence of life. What does he mean by this statement? Is exploitation a basic biologi-cal function of living thin...
257. Every elevation of the type “man,” has hitherto been the work of an aristocratic society and so it will always be—a society believing in a long scale of gradations of rank and differences of worth among human beings, and requiring slavery in some form or other. Without the pathos of dis-tance, such as grows out of the incarnated difference of ...
258. Corruption—as the indication that anarchy threatens to break out among the instincts, and that the foundation of the emotions, called “life,” is convulsed—is something radically different according to the organiza-tion in which it manifests itself. When, for instance, an aristocracy like that of France at the beginning of the Revolution, flung...
259. To refrain mutually from injury, from violence, from exploitation, and put one’s will on a par with that of others: this may result in a cer-tain rough sense in good conduct among individuals when the necessary conditions are given (namely, the actual similarity of the individuals in amount of force and degree of worth, and their co-relation w...
“The noble type of man regards himself as a determiner of values; he does not require to be approved of. . . he is a creator of values.” “Exploitation” does not belong to a depraved, or imperfect and primitive society it belongs to the nature of the living being as a primary organic function, it is a consequence of the intrinsic Will to Power, whic...
260. In a tour through the many finer and coarser moralities which have hitherto prevailed or still prevail on the earth, I found certain traits recur-ring regularly together, and connected with one another, until finally two primary types revealed themselves to me, and a radical distinction was brought to light. There is master-morality and slave-...
It is otherwise with the second type of morality, slave-morality. Suppos-ing that the abused, the oppressed, the suffering, the unemancipated, the weary, and those uncertain of themselves should moralize, what will be the common element in their moral estimates? Probably a pessimistic sus-picion with regard to the entire situation of man will find ...
A last fundamental difference: the desire for freedom, the instinct for hap-piness and the refinements of the feeling of liberty belong as necessarily to slave-morals and morality, as artifice and enthusiasm in reverence and devotion are the regular symptoms of an aristocratic mode of thinking and estimating.— Hence we can understand without furthe...
“Everywhere slave-morality gains ascendancy, language shows a tendency to approximate the meanings of the words ‘good’ and ‘stupid.’” In fact, conformably to the slow rise of the democratic social order (and its cause, the blending of the blood of masters and slaves), the originally noble and rare impulse of the masters to assign a value to themsel...
Friedrich Nietzsche (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. An excellent first resource for discovering Nietzsche’s life and writings. “The Perspectives of Nietzsche” (http://www.pitt.edu/~wbcurry/nietzsche.html). An accessible introduction to some main concepts of Nietzsche’s philoso-phy by Bill Curry.
“. . . it is the peculiar right of masters to create values.”
Compare Nietzsche’s view of life as the “Will to Power” with Glau-con’s account in Plato’s “The Ring of Gyges.” Do both accounts pre-suppose a state of nature prior to the development of society? How would social contract theory regard the so-called “master-morality”? Nietzsche scholar Walter Kaufmann suggests that master-morality is revealed in th...
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Nietzsche challenges conventional views of history and philosophy, offering a provocative and thought-provoking analysis that invites readers to reconsider their understanding of human existence, morality, and the nature of truth. Through a blend of historical scholarship and philosophical reflection, Nietzsche illuminates the enduring relevance of
This comprehensive and lucid exposition of the development of Nietzsche’s philosophy of history explores how Nietzsche thought about history and historiography throughout his life and how it affected his most fundamental ideas.
May 30, 1997 · Often referred to as one of the first existentialist philosophers, Nietzsche's revitalizing philosophy has inspired leading figures in all walks of cultural life, including dancers, poets, novelists, painters, psychologists, philosophers, sociologists and social revolutionaries. 1. Life: 1844-1900. 2. Early Writings: 1872-1876. 3.
HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Beyond Good and Evil ... 978-0-521-77078-1 - Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy
The volumes are designed for student use at undergraduate and postgraduate level and will be of interest not only to students of philosophy, but also to a wider audience of readers in the history of science, the history of theology, and the history of ideas. For a list of titles published in the series, please see end of book.
