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audible . . . we need a critique of moral values, the value of these values must itself for once be called into question GM P 6 . Nietzsche here makes clear that he distinguishes all morality from specific moralities in this case from one he had earlier, under Schopenhauer's influence, identified with morality itself. 4 The qualified interpretation of his immoralism therefore seems to trivialize what Nietzsche himself wants to say. Those who interpret him instead as a full-fledged immoralist...
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Holocaust. Philosophers as diverse as Bernard Williams and Michel Foucault, Martha Nussbaum and Jean-Fran ois Lyotard, Walter Benjamin and Richard Rorty have begun to suspect that the moral point of view simpliciter may be the problem rather than a solution. It is not merely that morality conceived as the search for action-guiding principles is too thin to do any useful work. Rather, the suspicion is now emerging that im morality may well be morality's Siamese twin, just as the irrational may...
B Appearance Reality and the Received View
The Received View generates a paradox when juxtaposed with Nietzsche's well-known rejection of the appearance reality A R distinction that is, his rejection of the idea of an unknown and unknowable world, transcending the world of experience compare TI III 6 and IV . On his view, the world of appearing is just all the world there is though it is, of course, no longer a merely apparent world. Yet the Received View, by holding that no view gives a better picture of the world as it really is than...
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This is, of course, only a sketch of a possible account, drawn fairly directly from Nietzschean materials. The most important feature of it, for the present purpose, is its structure. We start with a supposed psychological phenomenon, willing, associated with the conception of the self in action. The phenomenon seems recognizable in experience, and it seems also to have a certain authority. Its description already presents difficulties and obscurities, but proposals merely to explain it away or...
The Nationalistic Neurosis
Especially in Germany, anti-Semitism was the other Janus face of nationalism, which Nietzsche also opposed as madness and neurosis. Nietzsche attacked both nationalism in general and, in particular, the new German nationalism of his time, then reaching an exalted climax through the unification of Germany under a Prussian Kaiser and Bismarck's Reich . In exposing nationalism as another modern form of the herd mentality, he also identified the context within which German anti-Semitism functioned...
The Conversion of Wagner Parsifal
In Parsifal Wagner's ascetic ideal triumphs one hears its final hatred of life. 22 Parsifal is the innocent, the chaste. Kundry gives the following etymology of his name Foolish and pure I will name you Foolish Parsi Pure and foolish Parsifal Parsifal child of foolish purity. Kundry, under the power of the sorcerer Klingsor, tries to bewitch and seduce Parsifal. She is sensual, yet nostalgic for salvation. In Parsifal, by contrast, love and desire are divorced he can only save Kundry by...
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The first problem with this account of pity and nihilism is the similarity it suggests between self-overcoming and pity, or even nihilism. How are they to be distinguished Perhaps it can be argued that the self is overcome in the name of what is best in us, whereas in pity, what is best is overcome out of a loyalty to the condition of the majority. Such an analysis may cast light on structuralist and poststructuralist deconstructions of the self, which follow Nietzsche in the critique of a...
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completeness namely, that the semantic content of the utterance be expressed or acknowledged completely. As initially uttered or written, it is not complete, since it must be supplemented by the audience to be rendered complete. The incompleteness may in many cases be sustained by a narrational inertia which is suspended, which pauses or stops abruptly even by raising a question. But in every case, the audience feels itself obliged to complete the utterance, to make sense out of what was only...
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preparing this bric- -brac for publication could only be one of selecting, combining, rewriting, gathering-under-heads, and so on. This, in its turn, clearly had to be guided by a self-conscious judgment of what in each case was indispensable concerning the context, as well as what would be digestible and, moreover, alluring to the reader. Above all. though, Nietzsche was an artist, who was proud of his taste, early equated with Greek sophia 12 and he had his secrets of craftsmanship, just as...
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Although Nietzsche quite explicitly claims to be an immoralist for example, EH IV 2-4 BT P 5 , 1 many serious and sympathetic interpreters have denied that he is. This is understandable because immoralism is a difficult position to take seriously. An immoralist does not simply ignore morality, or deny its fight to our compliance, but claims that morality is a bad thing that should be rejected. Immoralism therefore seems to be defensible only from the viewpoint of a morality, which makes it...
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stimuli that triggered the creative expenditure of ressentiment constitutive of slave morality were initially provided by the nobles, whose self-affirmation contributed to the slaves' perception of a hostile external world. But an explosive expenditure of ressentiment directed against the nobles would have proved suicidal for the slaves. At this point, Nietzsche speculates, the ascetic priest intervened, identifying the slaves as responsible for their suffering, and redirecting inward the...
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It seems to me that this is tantamount to telling us not to think of elephants. Lest our own imaginations be too cautious, Nietzsche suggests some colorful possibilities. In any event, it is not long since princely weddings and public festivals of the more magnificent kind were unthinkable without executions, torturings, or perhaps an auto-da-fe, and no noble household was without creatures upon whom one could heedlessly vent one's malice and cruel jokes. . Without cruelty there is no festival...
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and the resolve to never do that again. The psychological value of this move is obvious one need no longer identify with the guilty doer of the deed one declares that one is no longer the pawn caught in a destructive pattern. But Nietzsche's retort is that by swearing off our fixed ideas, we've only given in to another absolutism, which amounts to another ground for asceticism. Insofar as we demand some unconditional basis for anything and will sacrifice our own pleasure to this faith, we are...