Nietzsche's task : an interpretation of Beyond good and evil / Laurence Lampert.

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Lampert, Laurence, 1941- [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780300128833
0300128835
1281729175
9781281729170

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

B3313.43

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Contents:

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations of Nietzscheâ€?s Works""; ""Introduction: Nietzscheâ€?s Task""; ""Preface: A Task for a Good European""; ""1 On the Prejudices of Philosophers""; ""2 The Free Mind""; ""3 Das ReligiÃ¶se Wesen""; ""4 Epigrams and Interludes""; ""5 On the Natural History of Morality""; ""6 We Scholars""; ""7 Our Virtues""; ""8 Peoples and Fatherlands""; ""9 What Is Noble?""

Summary: When Nictzsche published Beyond Good and Evil in 1886, he told a friend that it was a book that would not be read properly until "around the year 2000". Now Laurence Lampert sets out to fulfill this prophecy by providing a section by section interpretation of this philosophical masterpiece that emphasises its unity and depth as a comprehensive new doctrine on nature and humanity. According to Lampert, Nietzsche begins with a critique of philosophy that is ultimately affirmative, because it shows how philosophy can arrive at a defensible ontological account of the way of all beings. Nietzsche next argues that a new post-Christian religion can arise out of the affirmation of the world disclosed to philosophy. Then, turning to the implications of the new ontology for morality and politics, Nietzsche argues that these can be reconstituted on the fundamental insights of the new philosophy. Nietzsche's comprehensive depiction of this anti-Platonic philosophy ends with a chapter on nobility, in which he contends that what can now be publicly celebrated as noble in our species are its highest achievements of mind and spirit.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book	G. Allen Fleece Library Online	Non-fiction	B3313.43 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn128302073

Includes bibliographies and index.

When Nictzsche published Beyond Good and Evil in 1886, he told a friend that it was a book that would not be read properly until "around the year 2000". Now Laurence Lampert sets out to fulfill this prophecy by providing a section by section interpretation of this philosophical masterpiece that emphasises its unity and depth as a comprehensive new doctrine on nature and humanity. According to Lampert, Nietzsche begins with a critique of philosophy that is ultimately affirmative, because it shows how philosophy can arrive at a defensible ontological account of the way of all beings. Nietzsche next argues that a new post-Christian religion can arise out of the affirmation of the world disclosed to philosophy. Then, turning to the implications of the new ontology for morality and politics, Nietzsche argues that these can be reconstituted on the fundamental insights of the new philosophy. Nietzsche's comprehensive depiction of this anti-Platonic philosophy ends with a chapter on nobility, in which he contends that what can now be publicly celebrated as noble in our species are its highest achievements of mind and spirit.

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