Tutorial � Nietzsche, truth

Greg Detre

@11 on 16 Jan 01

Dr Rosen, post-Kantian I

 

can one develop???

people don�t create selves from nothing/as they wish

can remember ourselves, but to a limited degree

some people use their WP laudably, others don�t

he�s appealing to those with ears to hear him

either deterministic or refuse to question

he�s not interested in FW + responsibility

�be a man and don�t follow me� � Wagner

 

accumulation of perspectives overall meta-perspective � maybe, seems non-Nietzschean

having firm foundation = drive for truth

GM � ethical dimension of search for truth

impulse not to believe the unsafe

truth as aesthetic???

we must adept that which is life-enhancing

WP 50� desire for truth as +ve aspect of WP????

truth = the desire for foundation BUT there is no foundation � WEAKNESS

to deny perspectivism is to stand truth on her head

desire for certainty (GS, Z) separating higher from lower human

endorsing the honesty of ascetic, strength in the drive for certainty and looking for foundatoins, so long as you conclude it�s foundationless

we last of the Stoics � in the future, people will laugh at Nietzsche�s own desire for truth

desiring firm ground = weakness but also honesty

 

is Nietzsche himself the superman???

sometimes he thinks he is, but more like John the Baptists

strong in some ways but weak in others (solitude as a vantage point)

 

why is perspectivism truer than realism?

perspectivism is a �ve doctrine, coheres better with science

 

Misc

positivist science in GS

atheism, ascetism, will to truth

Nietzsche as the denier of negatives

Next week

How in Nietzsche�s view does tragedy enable human beings to accept the world?

What led to its demise?

 

Birth of Tragedy - puts the drive for truth in context

pay attention to Socratism as that which corrodes tragedy

Reading

Nietzsche lectures on Philology

Danto

Nehamas

Schacht

Janaway � Willing + nothingness in Schopenhauer

Silk + Stern � Nietzsche on tragedy