Nietzsche's Naturalism

Nietzsche's Naturalism
Author: Christian Emden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2014-05-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107059631

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
Total Pages: 270
Release: 1999
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780520215535

"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's Naturalism

Nietzsche's Naturalism
Author: Christian J. Emden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2014-05-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1139993135

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, Naturalism, and Normativity

Nietzsche, Naturalism, and Normativity
Author: Christopher Janaway
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2012-09-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199583676

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.

Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Nietzsche on Morality

Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Nietzsche on Morality
Author: Brian Leiter
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 113474336X

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.

The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche

The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche
Author: Ken Gemes
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
Total Pages: 809
Release: 2013-09-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199534640

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.

Beyond Selflessness

Beyond Selflessness
Author: Christopher Janaway
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2007-07-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199279691

Janaway presents a full commentary on Nietzsche's most studied work, 'On the Genealogy of Morality', and combines close reading of key passages with an exploration of Nietzsche's wider aims. The book will be essential reading for historians of moral philosophy.

Naturalizing Heidegger

Naturalizing Heidegger
Author: David E. Storey
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2015-02-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 143845483X

Explores the evolution of Heidegger’s thinking about nature and its relevance for environmental ethics. In Naturalizing Heidegger, David E. Storey proposes a new interpretation of Heidegger’s importance for environmental philosophy, finding in the development of his thought from the early 1920s to his later work in the 1940s the groundwork for a naturalistic ontology of life. Primarily drawing on Heidegger’s engagement with Nietzsche, but also on his readings of Aristotle and the biologist Jakob von Uexküll, Storey focuses on his critique of the nihilism at the heart of modernity, and his conception of the intentionality of organisms and their relation to their environments. From these ideas, a vision of nature emerges that recognizes the intrinsic value of all living things and their kinship with one another, and which anticipates later approaches in the philosophy of nature, such as Hans Jonas’s phenomenology of life and Evan Thompson’s contemporary attempt to naturalize phenomenology.

Moral Psychology with Nietzsche

Moral Psychology with Nietzsche
Author: Brian Leiter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2019-04-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0192571796

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.

Nietzsche's Metaphilosophy

Nietzsche's Metaphilosophy
Author: Paul S. Loeb
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2019-11-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 110842225X

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