A Genealogy of the 14i 11 : A Comparison of the ~lo rks of Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche Author: Jane Elizabeth Edwards Thesis Director: Dr. Hugh West Degree: Master of Arts in History University of Richmond, 1986 This study investigates the development of the notion of man's will upon which Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche based their theories. Although this topic had been virtually negle...

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a remarkable philologist-philosopher while remaining in a condition of ill-health. Issues about his wandering/disruptive behavior that might be a consequence and/or protection against his cognitive decline and multifaceted disease are presented. The life complex that raises speculations about its etiology is constituted by: insight, creativity and wandering b...

the novel , when nietzsche wept , by arvin d . yalom , has efficiently manifested the ties between literature and psychology , and it was so imperssive that immadiately a movie with the same name was made that became very famous and won many awards . the writer has aimed to demonstrate the psychoneurosis treatment of two western geniuses . in this essay , attempts has been made to evaluate the ...

The renown of “order of rank”(Rangordnung), as a term of art, suffers in comparison to some of Nietzsche’s more famous locutions. Nietzsche nevertheless makes two intriguing claims about order of rank: that it is the key to the very task of philosophy, and that we inevitably misunderstand it. There are at least three reasons why an inquiry into Nietzsche’s notion of “order of rank” should be fr...

Láng Csaba: Nietzsche-menet. Teremtés és szenvedés Nietzsche filozófiájában. Napkút, Bp. 2019. 192 old.

The centrality of the embodiment of mind, self, and values for the later Nietzsche is widely acknowledged. Here, I reconstrue Nietzsche’s HL to show that he uses his drive model of the mind already in this early text. The “historical sickness” central to HL is diagnosed in the form of failures of embodiment and drive control. First, I argue that a precursor to Nietzsche’s figure of “the last hu...

The aim of this article is to show (1) that freedom and agency are among Nietzsche’s central concerns, (2) that his much-discussed interest in power in fact originates in a first-person account of freedom, and (3) that this novel understanding of the phenomenon of freedom informs his ‘theory’ of agency. I will argue that while Nietzsche questions the weight philosophers have given to the first-...

Nietzsche y Jung. El Zaratustra de

cognitive mode. Indeed Socrates asserts that as the levels of cognition are ascended, with the character of "clearness" and "precision," so do their objects "...partake of truth and reality." Unfortunately, just as the "Good" itself was left unexplained as a causal principle in the sun eikon, so is that unhypothetical first principle also left unexplained here, in the divided line. Most importa...