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June 29, 2014
Christopher Janaway : Nietzsche's Psychology as a Refinement of Plato's
Journal of Nietzsche Studies 45 (1):12-21. 2014 The familiar, clichéd picture is this: Nietzsche, the antimetaphysician, versus Plato, the metaphysician. But in The Soul of Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil, Maudemarie Clark and David Dudrick portray the two thinkers as contestants in the same arena, that of psychology, the theory of the soul. In Beyond Good and Evil 268, Nietzsche makes a statement with which Plato would wholeheartedly agree: “A person’s valuations reveal something about the structure of his soul.”1 Clark and Dudrick also agree: for them “the central notion of BGE One [the Preface and Part I] is the soul” (176) and “[p]hilosophical psychology can ascertain the truth about the soul only by acknowledging values as constitutional” (135). They ..(direct link)
March 29, 2014
Christopher Janaway : Beauty is false, truth ugly: Nietzsche on art and life
Against the claim that Nietzsche’s early and late views on confronting the truth about human existence differ widely, this article argues that in The Birth of Tragedy tragic art is affirmative of life and not limited to beautifying illusion, while later works still contain the idea that artistic production of beauty is a falsification necessary to make existence bearable for us. Nietzsche did not start with the view that art’s value lies in sheer illusion, nor end with the view that truth should be confronted wholly without illusion, but is ambivalent on this issue throughout(direct link)
March 24, 2014
Christopher Janaway : The Gay Science
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews . forthcoming (direct link)
March 3, 2014
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