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Aspects of Nietzsche's philosophy, especially his ideas of the self and his relation to society, run through much of late-twentieth and early twenty-first century thought. Nietzsche's writings have also been influential to some advancers of Accelerationist thought through his influence on Deleuze and Guattari.
Summary. Nietzsche's philosophy has recently generated a significant amount of interest and excitement, much of it centered around his position on truth. Considerable hope exists, and much conviction, that Nietzsche has something important to say about truth. This study begins with the problem that confronts anyone with such hopes, namely, that ...
- Maudemarie Clark
- 1991
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Summary. The will to power is Nietzsche's most infamous contribution to philosophy. It is also among his most poorly articulated and defended concepts. To begin with, he never decided what will to power was: was it a psychological category of explanation, a reduction base for causal relations or an overarching ontological category?
Julian Young claims that Nietzsche's work embodies "communitarian thinking in the sense that the highest object of its concern is the flourishing of the community as a whole". This chapter precisely states the problem addressed in the integration of the communitarian and individualist strands in Nietzsche's thought.
- Christine Swanton
- 2014
May 6, 2010 · Commonly, forgiveness is thought to involve the giving up of certain negative emotions towards the wrongdoer, the forbearance of negative reactions against the wrongdoer, and possibly the restoration of the relationship with the wrongdoer. Much philosophical discussion of forgiveness centers on three primary questions: (1) What is the nature of ...
Nov 1, 1993 · Philosophy and Truth: Selections from Nietzsche's Notebooks of the Early 1870's. ions only succeeds by such means in warding off misfortune, without ever gaining any happiness for himself from these abstractions. And while he aims for the greatest possible freedom from pain, the intuitive man, standing in the midst of a culture, already reaps ...
Jun 28, 2018 · Nietzsche talks of ‘the new constraint which he imposes upon himself’: this relates to self-binding, which the Norwegian sociologist and philosopher Jon Elster dealt with under the heading ‘Ulysses and the Sirens’. Note that self-binding is a response to an expected future, namely to future temptations (the sirens’ song!), and that it ...
