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Nietzsche’s understanding of affect. The picture that emerges comprises a form of somatic account, paired with an interpretive account of the mechanisms that subsume affective states under folk-psychological concepts and categories. Such a view, I hope to demonstrate, underpins some of Nietzsche’s most prominent psychological claims.
being. This recognition was in large part the result of Nietzsche's intuitive psychological investigations into the structure of his own personality. This recognition led to a vast complex of ideas. Nietzsche's vision of the potentialities of the human being became in his early work an important aspect of his aesthetic.
- Richard Lowell Howey
- 1973
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This is where Nietzsche’s most profound influence on modern philosophy comes in. By thinking seriously about the role of cultural and personal perspective, he opened the door to modern psychology, cognitive science, and anthropology, disciplines that try to understand why people think the way they do.
- 1. A Nietzschean Reading of Heraclitus
- (NC2) That Heraclitus’ Rejection of the Senses was motivated by a Rejection of Being
- (NC3) That the Apparent World is the Only World
- Conclusion
In the above-quoted passage from Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche hints at what a consistent interpretation of Heraclitus might look like, including a list of three key features that such an interpretation must include: That Heraclitus rejects the testimony of the senses rather than rejecting, as Nietzsche suggests he should, the interpretation tha...
Nietzsche articulately describes the type of being that he believes Heraclitus rejects when, in speaking of other philosophers, Nietzsche says “They think that they show their respect for a subject when they de-historicize it, sub specie aeterni—when they turn it into a mummy.” These philosophers lack “historical sense” and hate “the very idea of b...
The claim that the apparent world is the only world can be understood in several different ways. The strongest understanding of this claim is that an object or property exists in the world if and only if we perceive it; perception is reality. We have already seen, though, that perception is only reality from a particular perspective—a perspective t...
Nietzsche is a thinker who presented much of his own philoso-phy as a response to other’s ideas, as exemplified by his interpretation of and commentary on Heraclitus. Consequently, an examination of that interpretation provides us with insights into his own views. One such view, that interpretations are only acceptable if they are open to new exper...
Mar 17, 2017 · Friedrich Nietzsche. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher and cultural critic who published intensively in the 1870s and 1880s. He is famous for uncompromising criticisms of traditional European morality and religion, as well as of conventional philosophical ideas and social and political pieties associated with modernity ...
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) developed his philosophy during the late 19th century. He owed the awakening of his philosophical interest to reading Arthur Schopenhauer 's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung ( The World as Will and Representation, 1819, revised 1844) and said that Schopenhauer was one of the few thinkers that he respected ...
contemporary critical theory and debate. This volume offers a lucid and accessible account of Nietzsche’s philosophy, encompassing such ideas as anti-humanism, good and evil, nihilism and the will to power, and introduces the reader to the radical questions posed by Nietzsche that challenged the received history of thought. The author not ...
