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- The main theme is the nature of and relation between unconscious and conscious mind. Whereas Nietzsche takes consciousness to be a mere ‘surface’—as he writes in Ecce Homo —that evolved in the course of human socialization, he sees the bedrock of human psychology as constituted by unconscious drives and affects.
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Mar 17, 2017 · First published Fri Mar 17, 2017; substantive revision Thu May 19, 2022. 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 ...
This article examines Nietzsche’s notion of a drive. It addresses three main questions: first, what is a drive? Second, what type of awareness do we have when we are being moved by a drive? Third, what is the relationship between being moved by a drive and reflectively choosing to perform an action?
Aug 7, 2022 · Nietzsche’s Philosophical Psychology. Mattia Riccardi, Nietzsche’s Philosophical Psychology, Oxford University Press, 2021, 249pp., $70.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780198803287. Reviewed by Christopher Fowles, University of Oxford. 2022.08.07.
Nietzsche, a trained philologist, frequently urges his readers to interpret him carefully. In this book, Mark Alfano combines detailed close reading with digital methods (corpus analysis and semantic network visualization) to reframe our understanding of this major figure.
- Mark Alfano
- 2019
Jan 1, 2020 · In summary, a critique of asceticism is at the core of Friedrich Nietzsche’s psychology of religion. Ascetic practices are used to control the instincts in a manner that is determined by societal values and behavioral codes.
- cmoore@wcupa.edu
His analyses of the root motives and values that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and playwrights. tragedy Summary. ethics Summary. Friedrich Nietzsche, (born Oct. 15, 1844, Röcken, Saxony, Prussia—died Aug. 25, 1900, Weimar ...
May 30, 1997 · Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher of the late 19th century who challenged the foundations of Christianity and traditional morality. He believed in life, creativity, health, and the realities of the world we live in, rather than those situated in a world beyond. Central to his philosophy is the idea of “life-affirmation,” which ...
