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Friedrich Nietzsche: Truth and Affirmation (My New Book)

March 19, 2021August 20, 2019 by Louis

It takes a week or so for Amazon to connect the paperback and the Kindle versions of the book to the same page. In the meantime, can access the paperback version by following this link. My new book on the 19th-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche comes out on August 23rd and is currently available for pre-order. …

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Nietzsche against metaphysics

Nietzsche against Metaphysics: The Ironic Naturalism of the Gay Science

March 19, 2021July 7, 2018 by Louis

Martin Heidegger and Richard Rorty argue that Nietzsche commits himself to biological naturalism. But I explore Nietzsche as a pure anti-metaphysician.

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Nietzsche on Joy: N.B. Requires Anguish

July 9, 2018June 27, 2018 by Louis

Nietzsche on Joy: he writes in the Preface to The Gay Science that authentic joy and depth only arise from an encounter with prolonged anguish.

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Nietzsche and the Ancients

Nietzsche and the Ancients: Against Fear as a Way of Life

March 19, 2021June 26, 2018 by Louis

Nietzsche and the Ancients. Confront life on life’s terms. Even when those terms seem perverse and brutal. Sallust, Horace, Thucydides.

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Horace, Ode 1.4. Springtime.

July 9, 2018June 24, 2018 by Louis

Horace alone makes the study of Latin important. Ode 1.4 about the coming of spring confronts a common theme in Horace: the brevity of life. Glow; be you; not tomorrow; here and now.

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Categories Philology, Translation
aristotle four causes

Aristotle: The Four Causes and Nietzsche’s Rejoinder – Aoriston

July 9, 2018June 15, 2018 by Louis

Aristotle lays out his theory of the four causes in Physics II.3 and Metaphysics V.2. This post offers a rich view of the fourfold Aristotelian causality (and how Nietzsche responds).

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Four Great Errors: Nietzsche’s Critique of Causation

July 9, 2018June 13, 2018 by Louis

Nietzsche names ‘four great errors’ in Twilight. The title plays on Aristotle’s four causes of being and marks a loose critique of Aristotelian metaphysics.

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