Tag: life
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Schopenhauer and Nietzsche
Simmel’s Schopenhauer and Nietzsche advances a precise and programmatic claim: by staging a double inquiry into pessimism and exuberant moralism as temperaments that crystallize into systems, Simmel demonstrates how philosophy of life becomes a diagnostic instrument for the modern crisis of meaning, while also exposing the intrinsic antinomies that any such instrument generates. The distinctive…
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Essays & Aphorisms by Arnold Schopenhauer
Schopenhauer’s Essays & Aphorisms, gathered here through the historically layered work of Mrs. Rudolf Dircks, R. J. Hollingdale, T. Bailey Saunders, R. B. Haldane and J. Kemp, presents a deliberately fragmentary architecture through which its author prosecutes a continuous metaphysical claim: that the world given in experience is a representation conditioned by intellect, while the…
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Friedrich Nietzsche – Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (1883–1885)
Nietzsche · WorksNietzscheCollected WorksCritical Edition Edited byGiorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari Sixth DivisionVolume OneWalter de Gruyter & Co.Berlin 1968 Friedrich NietzscheThus Spoke ZarathustraA Book for All and None(1883–1885) Walter de Gruyter & Co.Berlin 1968Archive No. 3659681 © 1968 by Walter de Gruyter & Co., formerly G. J. Göschen’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung —J. Guttentag, Verlagsbuchhandlung — Georg Reimer…
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Welt und Zeit—Destiny, 10:47—12. Februar 2025
Destiny names the abiding sense that certain outcomes or paths in life are foreordained, bound up in a cosmic or existential ordering that transcends conscious decision. Thrust into popular imagination as well as philosophical discourse, destiny often merges with fate, suggesting a hidden design or necessity that governs the arc of events. Although they both…
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In the Wake of Thought: The Dialectics of Scientific Knowledge
In the Depth of the Concept Lies Truth’s Essence; Its True Expression Unfolds in the Scientific System, Where Negativity Becomes the Source of Life. Table of Contents Abstract This work, In the Wake of Thought: The Dialectics of Scientific Knowledge, analyses the relationship between philosophical inquiry and scientific understanding, as explored through the lens of…
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A Beginner’s Guide to the Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein: Seventeen Lectures and Dialogues on the Philosophical Investigations
In this remarkable introduction to Wittgenstein’s later philosophy, Peter Hacker takes the reader on a journey through the vast landscapes of language, thought, mind, and human understanding, all the while illuminating the conceptual subtleties of one of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers. The book stands out by presenting Wittgenstein’s ideas in a congenial manner,…
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Philosophical Variations: Music as Philosophical Language
In Philosophical Variations: Music as Philosophical Language, Andrew Bowie presents a collection of essays that offer a sweeping examination of how musical practice, philosophy, and literary understanding converge upon, challenge, and illuminate each other, thereby reshaping our sense of what it means to think and to listen. The author, Professor of Philosophy and German at…
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Normativity and the Will: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Practical Reason
Normativity and the Will by R. Jay Wallace is a remarkable engagement with some of the most pressing and conceptually subtle issues at the intersection of ethical theory, moral psychology, and the theory of practical reason. In this volume, Wallace collects fourteen of his own seminal essays, each of which provides a robust philosophical framework…
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Friedrich Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human
The following text is a depiction so unrelenting in the thoroughness of its philosophical inquiry, so immoderate in the density of its conceptual detail, that it seems to stand as a great cavern of thought into which the attentive reader must plunge, armed with nothing but the steadfastness of one’s reason and the lucidity of…
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Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
This new edition of Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Gay Science, with a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs, translated by Josefine Nauckhoff and introduced by Bernard Williams, offers a transformative encounter with one of Nietzsche’s central works, a text that the philosopher himself once described as “perhaps my most personal book.” Written at…
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Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits (Revised Edition)
In approaching the Revised Edition of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits, as translated by Marion Faber and Stephen Lehmann, with an introduction and introductory notes by Arthur C. Danto, one is immediately struck by the unique historical and philosophical significance of this work and by the profound care with…
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Friedrich Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
Friedrich Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits presents a striking departure from his earlier, more romantic and metaphysical works, marking a pivotal moment in his intellectual evolution. This collection, which contains almost 1,400 aphorisms, was originally published in three installments between 1878 and 1880. It reflects Nietzsche’s shift from his previous…
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Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Dawn of Day
Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Dawn of Day (1881), translated by J. M. Kennedy, is a seminal work in the development of Nietzsche’s philosophical journey, bridging his earlier explorations and his later, more fully developed ideas. The book, a collection of aphorisms and prose poems, represents a profound moment in Nietzsche’s intellectual maturation. Written during a period…
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Nietzsche: Daybreak – Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
In Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality, Nietzsche embarks on a bold critique of traditional morality that not only challenges its assumptions but also lays the groundwork for his larger philosophical project—a radical revaluation of values that would come to define his mature work. The book represents a significant turning point in Nietzsche’s intellectual…
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Nietzsche’s Enlightenment: The Free-Spirit Trilogy of the Middle Period
In Nietzsche’s Enlightenment: The Free-Spirit Trilogy of the Middle Period, Paul Franco offers a comprehensive and insightful presentation of Friedrich Nietzsche’s works from his so-called middle period, a phase often overlooked or misunderstood in the broader sweep of Nietzschean scholarship. This middle period consists of three central works—Human, All Too Human, Daybreak, and The Gay…
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Nietzsche’s Journey to Sorrento: Genesis of the Philosophy of the Free Spirit
Nietzsche’s Journey to Sorrento: Genesis of the Philosophy of the Free Spirit by Paolo D’Iorio, as translated by Sylvia Gorelick, offers an in-depth and revealing portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche during a pivotal moment in his life and philosophy. In this compelling narrative, D’Iorio goes into the deep transformation Nietzsche experienced while spending time in southern…
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Nietzsche’s Free Spirit Philosophy
In Nietzsche’s Free Spirit Philosophy, Rebecca Bamford brings together an eclectic and sophisticated array of essays that illuminate the largely under-explored yet foundational concept of the “free spirit” in Nietzsche’s philosophy. This concept, which emerges in Nietzsche’s middle period, is particularly prominent in works like Human, All Too Human, Dawn (or Daybreak), and The Gay…
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Nietzsche’s Free Spirit Works: A Dialectical Reading
Matthew Meyer’s Nietzsche’s Free Spirit Works: A Dialectical Reading offers a key interpretation of Nietzsche’s middle period works, which span from 1878 to 1882 and include Human, All Too Human, Assorted Opinions and Maxims, The Wanderer and His Shadow, Daybreak, and The Gay Science. These texts, often dismissed as mere collections of aphorisms, are, according…
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s The World as Will and Representation | Two Volumes
Arthur Schopenhauer’s The World as Will and Representation is one of the most ambitious and penetrating philosophical treatises of the 19th century, made from a complex combination of epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, and a deep existential inquiry into the nature of human suffering and the possibilities of transcendence. Originally published in 1818 and later expanded…
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