Nietzsche's Naturalism

Nietzsche's Naturalism

Author: Christian Emden

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-05-29

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1107059631

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This book examines Nietzsche's philosophical naturalism both historically and philosophically, establishing a link between his discussions of nature and normativity.


Nietzsche

Nietzsche

Author: Christoph Cox

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9780520215535

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"Christoph Cox argues that Nietzsche successfully navigates between relativism and dogmatism, arriving at a postmetaphysical epistemological and ontological position that is not only viable but exemplary.


Nietzsche, Naturalism, and Normativity

Nietzsche, Naturalism, and Normativity

Author: Christopher Janaway

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-09-27

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0199583676

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This volume comprises ten original essays on Nietzsche, one of the western canon's most controversial ethical thinkers. An international team of experts clarify Nietzsche's own views, both critical and positive, ethical and meta-ethical, and connect his philosophical concerns to contemporary debates in and about ethics, normativity, and value.


Nietzsche's Naturalism

Nietzsche's Naturalism

Author: Christian J. Emden

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-05-29

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1139993135

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This book explores Nietzsche's philosophical naturalism in its historical context, showing that his position is best understood against the background of encounters between neo-Kantianism and the life sciences in the nineteenth century. Analyzing most of Nietzsche's writings from the late 1860s onwards, Christian J. Emden reconstructs Nietzsche's naturalism and argues for a new understanding of his account of nature and normativity. Emden proposes historical reasons why Nietzsche came to adopt the position he did; his genealogy of values and his account of a will to power are as much influenced by Kantian thought as they are by nineteenth-century debates on teleology, biological functions, and theories of evolution. This rich and wide-ranging study will be of interest to scholars and students of Nietzsche, the history of modern philosophy, intellectual history, and history of science.


Nietzsche's Naturalism

Nietzsche's Naturalism

Author: Christian J. Emden

Publisher:

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9781306857925

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This book explores Nietzsche's philosophical naturalism in its historical context, showing that his position is best understood against the background of encounters between neo-Kantianism and the life sciences in the nineteenth century. Analyzing most of Nietzsche's writings from the late 1860s onwards, Christian J. Emden reconstructs Nietzsche's naturalism and argues for a new understanding of his account of nature and normativity. Emden proposes historical reasons why Nietzsche came to adopt the position he did; his genealogy of values and his account of a will to power are as much influenced by Kantian thought as they are by nineteenth-century debates on teleology, biological functions, and theories of evolution. This rich and wide-ranging study will be of interest to scholars and students of Nietzsche, the history of modern philosophy, intellectual history, and history of science.


Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Nietzsche on Morality

Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Nietzsche on Morality

Author: Brian Leiter

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 113474336X

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Nietzsche is one of the most important and controversial thinkers in the history of philosophy. His writings on moral philosophy are amongst the most widely read works, both by philosophers and non-philosophers. Many of the ideas raised are both startling and disturbing, and have been the source of great contention. On the Genealogy of Morality is Nietzsche's most sustained and important contribution to moral philosophy, featuring many of the ideas for which he is best known, including the slave revolt in morals; will to power; genealogy; and perspectivism. The Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Nietzsche on Morality introduces the reader to these and other important Nietzschean themes patiently and clearly. It is the first book to examine the work in such a way, and will be a vital point of reference for any Nietzsche scholar, and essential reading for students coming to Nietzsche for the first time.


Nietzsche's Metaphilosophy

Nietzsche's Metaphilosophy

Author: Paul S. Loeb

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-11-07

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 110842225X

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Renowned scholars explore and discuss Nietzsche's desire to challenge the very conception of philosophy, and his methods of doing so.


Moral Psychology with Nietzsche

Moral Psychology with Nietzsche

Author: Brian Leiter

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019-04-04

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0192571796

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Brian Leiter defends a set of radical ideas from Nietzsche: there is no objectively true morality, there is no free will, no one is ever morally responsible, and our conscious thoughts and reasoning play almost no significant role in our actions and how our lives unfold. He presents a new interpretation of main themes of Nietzsche's moral psychology, including his anti-realism about value (including epistemic value), his account of moral judgment and its relationship to the emotions, his conception of the will and agency, his scepticism about free will and moral responsibility, his epiphenomenalism about certain kinds of conscious mental states, and his views about the heritability of psychological traits. In combining exegesis with argument, Leiter engages the views of philosophers like Harry Frankfurt, T. M. Scanlon, and Gary Watson, and psychologists including Daniel Wegner, Benjamin Libet, and Stanley Milgram. Nietzsche emerges not simply as a museum piece from the history of ideas, but as a philosopher and psychologist who exceeds David Hume for insight into human nature and the human mind, repeatedly anticipates later developments in empirical psychology, and continues to offer sophisticated and unsettling challenges to much conventional wisdom in both philosophy and psychology.


The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche

The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche

Author: Ken Gemes

Publisher: Oxford Handbooks

Published: 2013-09-05

Total Pages: 809

ISBN-13: 0199534640

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An international team of scholars offer a broad engagement with the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche. They discuss the main topics of his philosophy, under the headings of values, epistemology and metaphysics, and will to power. Other sections are devoted to his life, his relations to other philosophers, and his individual works.


Nietzsche

Nietzsche

Author: Christoph Cox

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-12-22

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780520921603

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Nietzsche: Naturalism and Interpretation offers a resolution of one of the most vexing problems in Nietzsche scholarship. As perhaps the most significant predecessor of more recent attempts to formulate a postmetaphysical epistemology and ontology, Nietzsche is considered by many critics to share this problem with his successors: How can an antifoundationalist philosophy avoid vicious relativism and legitimate its claim to provide a platform for the critique of arguments, practices, and institutions? Christoph Cox argues that Nietzsche successfully navigates between relativism and dogmatism, accepting the naturalistic critique of metaphysics and theology provided by modern science, yet maintaining that a thoroughgoing naturalism must move beyond scientific reductionism. It must accept a central feature of aesthetic understanding: acknowledgment of the primacy and irreducibility of interpretation. This view of Nietzsche's doctrines of perspectivism, becoming, and will to power as products of an overall naturalism balanced by a reciprocal commitment to interpretationism will spur new discussions of epistemology and ontology in contemporary thought.