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Friday, May 27, 2016

Human, All Too Human By Friedrich Nietzsche


Our research on this book has left us to believe that there is not a lot of substantial secondary literature on it.  There are quite a few articles and books out there that mention "Human, All Too Human," however, these mentionings are passing thoughts and/or mere lip service.  We do not think it is appropriate to list those sources because they simply do not examine in any kind of depth the ideas contained in this book.  In any event, we have listed what we found.  Hopefully, somebody can come along and point us in the direction of where we can find and review other secondary sources that do more than give it a passing glance.


Primary Sources:
1) Nietzsche, Friedrich. Human, All Too Human. Trans. R.J. Hollingdale. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Print.


2) Nietzsche, Friedrich. Human, Human Too Human. Trans. Marion Faber and Stephen Lehmann. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, Print. 

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Note: We highly recommend reading the section of this book titled "Beginning to Be Nietzsche" by
Arthur Danto because he explains how Nietzsche became a philosopher while writing "Human, All Too Human."

3) Nietzsche, Friedrich. "Human, All Too Human." Trans. Alexander Harvey. Project Gutenberg. Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1908. Web.

***Click here to go to Project Gutenberg for a free copy of this book


Secondary Sources:

Books:

1) Franco, Paul. Nietzsche's Enlightenment: The Free-Spirit Trilogy of the Middle Period. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. Print.


Journal Articles:

1) Schacht, Richard. "Nietzsche's Naturalism." The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 43.2 (2012): 185-212. Web.

***This article is not exclusively about "Human, All Too Human; however, it does discuss how Nietzsche conceived of himself as a naturalistic thinker which takes up a large part of "Human, All Too Human."

2) Fanco, Paul. "Nietzsche's Human, All Too Human and the Problem of Culture." The Review of Politics 69 (2007): 215-243. Web.

3) Elgat, Guy. "Nietzsche's Critique of Pure Altruism -- Developing an Argument from Human, All Too Human." Inquiry 58.3 (2015): 308-326. Web.

Video:

1) Human, All Too Human: BBC Documentary.  This is a documentary about Nietzsche's life.  It is not a scholarly examination of the book.  However, because the video bears the same name as the book, we thought we would include it.


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Wednesday, May 25, 2016

The Phenomenology of Spirit by G.W.F. Hegel


Primary Sources:

1) Hegel, G.W.F. Phenomenology of Spirit. Trans. A.V. Miller. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977. Print.


2) Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. "Hegel's Philosophy of Mind." Project Gutenberg. Clarendon Press, 2012. Web.


Note: We usually try and list several translations of a primary work in case people want to compare and contrast.  However, in the case of Hegel's "Phenomenology," the Miller translation has become the translation par excellence in academia.  So, we only list  that along with a free version supplied by Project Gutenberg.

Secondary Sources:

Books:

1) Priest, Stephen., ed. Hegel's Critique of Kant. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. Print.


Note: This book is an anthology.  Though all of the essays contained therein are not exclusively about Hegel's "Phenomenology," they are all relevant to it.

2) Stern, Robert. The Routledge Guidebook To Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. New York: Routledge. Print.


3) Macdonald, Molly. Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit." New York: Routledge, 2014. Print.


4) Westphal, Kenneth R., ed. The Blackwell Guide to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Print.


Journal Articles:

1) Solomon, Robert C. "A Small Problem in Hegel's Phenomenology." Journal of the History of Philosophy 13.3 (1975): 399-400. Web.

2) Browman, Brady. "Spinozist Pantheism and the Truth of "Sense Certainty":What the Eleusinian Mysteries Tell us about Hegel's Phenomenology." Journal of the History of Philosophy 50.1 (2012): 85-110. Web.

3) Dorrien, Gary. "In The Spirit of Hegel: Post-Kantian Subjectivity, the Phenomenology of Spirit, and Absolute Idealism." American Journal of Theology & Philosophy 33.3 (2012): 220-223. Web.

4) LaMothe, Kimmerer L. "Reason, Religion, and Sexual Difference; Resources for a Feminist Philosophy of Religion in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit." Hypatia 21.1 (2005): 120-149.

5) Okrent, Mark. Consciousness and Objective Spirit in Hegel's Phenomenology." Journal of the History of Philosophy 18.1 (1980): 39-55.

6) Bayer, Thora I. "Hegelian Rhetoric." Philosophy and Rhetoric 42.3 (2009): 203-219. Web.

7) Mueller, Gustav E. "The Hegel Legend of "Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis." Journal of the History of Ideas 19.3 (1958): 411-415. Web.

**This is an old article (1958) but is useful to overcome the reduction of Hegel's thought to the often cited thesis, antithesis, synthesis schematism.  It explains Hegel's method of dialectic which Hegel uses in the "Phenomenology."

8) Williams, Robert R. "Hegel and Transcendental Philosophy." The Journal of Philosophy 82.11 (1985): 595-606. Web.

***This is also an older article.  It examines some of the arguments for and against  Hegel's "Phenomenology" as transcendental philosophy.

9) Winfield. Richard D. "Is Phenomenology Necessary as Introduction to Philosophy?" The Review of Metaphysics 65.2 (2011): 279-298. Web.

10) Westphal, Kenneth R. "Hegel's Manifold Response to Scepticism in The Phenomenology of Spirt." Proceedings of the Aristotelean Society 103 (2003): 149-178. Web. 

Video:

1) Dr. Sadler goes through the "Phenomenology of Spirit," section by section, offering a thorough analysis of the material.  This is a major contribution to the philosophical community.  Anyone interested in doing research on Hegel should take advantage of these videos.

***Click here to go to Dr. Sadler's blog where his full lecture series on the "Phenomenology of Spirit" can be found



2) Dr. Sadler also gives a single lecture on Hegel's "Phenomenology."  Obviously, this will not be as in depth as the previous ones.  However, they provide a sufficient introduction to the "Phenomenology."

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Saturday, May 21, 2016

The Will to Power By Friedrich Nietzsche

Primary Sources:


1) Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Will to Power. Trans. Anthony M. Ludovici. New York: Barnes and Nobel Inc, 2006. Print. 


2) Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Will to Power. Trans. Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale. New York: Vintage Books, 1968. Print.

Secondary Sources:

Print:

1) Soll, Ivan. "Nietzsche's Will to Power as a Psychological Thesis: Reactions to Bernard Reginster." The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 43.1 (2012): 118-129  Web.

***This article is a reaction to a book written by Bernard Reginster.  See the citation directly below for this book.

2) Reginster, Bernard. The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism. Cambridge: Harvard Univeristy Press, 2006. Print


3) Katsafanas, Paul. "Philosophical Psychology as a Basis for Ethics." The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 44.2 (2013): 297-314. Web.

***This article examines how the will to power thesis has a normative status as the foundation for ethics.

4) Aydin, Ciano. "Nietzsche on Reality as Will to Power: Toward an "Organization-Struggle" Model." The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 33 (2007): 25-48. Web.

***The author says the "goal of this article is to shed light on Nietzsche's notion of reality through a critical examination of the notions "will to power," "struggle," and "organization" (Aydin 25).

5) Rydenfelt, Henrik. "Valuation and the Will to Power: Nietzsche's Ethics with Ontology." The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 44.2 (2013): 213-224. Web.

***The author says the goal of the essay "is to sketch and defend an interpretation of Nietzsche’s ethical views that would—to the extent that it is possible—incorporate both the antirealistic or nihilistic aspects of his metaethics and the “positive” ethical valuations undeniably present in his writings" (Rydenfelt 213).

6) Soll, Ivan. "Nietzsche Disempowered: Reading the Will to Power out of Nietzsche's Philosophy." The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 46.3 (2015): 425-450. Web.

***The author says this is to "confront and criticize the widespread tendency to ignore, marginalize, or dismiss without serious consideration Nietzsche’s psychological hypothesis that a “will to power” is the major motivator of human behavior" (Soll 425).  

7) Reginster, Bernard. "Replies to My Critics." The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 43.1 (2012):130-143. Web.

***Reginster defends his position of his account of Nietzsche's Will to Power thesis in his (Reginster's) book "The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism," which is cited above.  He specifically is replying to Soll's objections levied in "Nietzsche's Will to Power as a Psychological Thesis: Reactions to Bernard Reginster," which is also cited above.  

8)  Emden, Christian J. "Nietzsche's Will to Power: Biology, Naturalism, and Normativity." The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 47.1 (2016): 30-60. Web.

*** The thesis the author defends in this paper can be stated in his own words as such: "The link between the will to power and normativity cannot be explained, however, along the lines of a psychological reading of Nietzsche’s naturalism; rather, Nietzsche’s naturalism is rooted in contemporary biological discussions. Biology comes first, psychology second" (Emden 30).

9) Rehberg, Andrea. "The Overcoming of Physiology." The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 23 (2002): 39-50. Web.

***The author makes an argument about why she thinks physiology and the will to power thesis are synonymous with another.  Any distinction between the two "is a matter of emphasis rather than due to a strong conceptual separation" (Rehberg 39).














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Friday, May 20, 2016

The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer

Since Schopenhauer intended readers to be familiar with his dissertation (On the fourfold root of the principle of sufficient reason) while reading his magnum opus (the world as will and representation), we have included both of the works in this post.  We have included the secondary sources on both of the primary sources in this post as well because often times authors address Schopenhauer's works together either implicitly or explicitly.








Primary Sources for "The World as Will and Representation":






1) Schopenhauer, Arthur. The World as Will and Representation Volume 1. Trans. E. F. J. Payne. New York: Dover Publications Inc, 1969. Print.



2) Schopenhauer, Arthur. The World as Will and Representation Volume 2. Trans. E. F. J. Payne. New York: Dover Publications Inc, 1969. Print.



3) Schopenhauer, Arthur. The world as Will and Representation Volume 1. Trans. Judith Norman and Alistair Welchman and Christopher Janaway. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Print.


For those who are unfamiliar with Project Gutenberg, it is a resource where over 52,000 free ebooks can be viewed and read in their entirety.  Since the works contained within Project Gutenberg are not protected under U.S. copyright law, we are allowed to distribute links directly to the published material.  However, we still cite the works appropriately for pedagogical purposes.

1) Schopenhauer, Arthur. The World as Will and Idea Volume 1. Trans. R.B. Haldane and J. Kemp. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, (1909).


2) Schopenhauer, Arthur. The World as Will and Idea Volume 2. Trans. R,B. Haldane and J. Kemp. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, (1909). 


3) Schopenhauer, Arthur. The World as Will and Idea Volume 3. Trans. R,B. Haldane and J. Kemp. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, (1909). 

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Primary Sources for "On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason."

1) 1) Schopenhauer, Arthur. On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and Other Writings. Trans. David E. Cartwright, Edward E. Erdmann, and Christopher Janaway. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Print.


Note: There are other translations of this work out there which is confirmed by a simple Amazon search.  However, this particular compilation of translations is the most accessible of them all. Accessible meaning that the language of the translations has been updated for contemporary readers. Thus, we only list this set of translations for the foregoing reason.


Secondary Sources:

Books:

1) Wicks, Robert L. Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation: A Reader's Guide. London: Continuum Internation Publishing Group, 2011. Print.

2) Young Julian. Willing and Unwilling: A Study in the Philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer. Dordrecht: Springer, 1987. Print.

3) Magee, Bryan. The Philosophy of Schopenhauer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Print.
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 4) Atwell, John E. Schopenhauer on the Character of the World: The Metaphysics of Will. Berkely: University of California Press, 1995. Print.

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 5) Copleston, Frederick C. Copleston, Frederick C. Arthur Schopenhauer: Philosopher of Pessimism. London: Burns Oates and Washbourne, 1946. Print.

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 6) Gardiner, P. Schopenhauer. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963. Print.
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 7) Hamlyn, D. W. Schopenhauer. London: Routledge, 1980. Print.
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 8) Janaway, Christopher. Self and World in Schopenhauer’s Philosophy. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Print.

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 9) Tanner, Michael. Schopenhauer. London: Phoenix, 1998. Print.

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Journal Articles:

1) Snow, Dale E., and Snow, James J. "Was Schopenhauer an Idealist?" Journal of the History of Philosophy 29.4 (1991): 633-655. Web.

2) Ryan, Christopher. "Schopenhauer on Idealism, Indian and European." Philosophy East and West 65.1 (2015): 18-35. Web.

3) Humphrey, Ted. "Schopenhauer and the Cartesian Tradition." Journal of the History of Philosophy 19.2 (1981): 191-212. Web.

4) McDermid, D. "Schopenhauer as Epistemologist: a Kantian Against Kant." International Philosophical Quarterly  42.2 (2002): 209–29. Web.

5) Safranski, R. Schopenhauer and The Wild Years of Philosophy. Trans. E. Osers. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990. Print.

6) Snow, D. and Snow J. (1991) "Was Schopenhauer an Idealist." Journal of the History of Philosophy 29.1 (1991): 633–55. Web.

7) Koßler, Matthias. "Life is but a Mirror: On the Connection between Ethics, Metaphysics and Character in Schopenhauer. European Journal of Philosophy 16.2 (2008): 230-250. Web.

8) Cabos, Jordi. "Schopenhauer and the malaise of an age." Philosophy and Social Criticism 42.1 (2016): 93-113. Web.

9) Migotti, Mark. "Schopenhauer's Pessimism and the Unconditioned Good." Journal of the History of Philosophy 33.4 (1995): 643-660. Web.

10) Luchte, James. "The Body of Sublime Knowledge: The Aesthetic Phenomenology of Arthur Schopenhauer. Heythrop Journal 50.2 (2009): 228-242. Web.

11) Vandenabeele, Bart. "Schopenhauer on Aesthetic Understanding and the Values of Art." European Journal of Philosophy 16.2 (2008): 194-210. Web.

12) Lewis, Peter B. "Schopenhauer's Laughter." Monist 88.1 (2005): 36-51. Web.

13) McDermind, Douglas J. "The World as Representation: Schopenhauer's Argument for Transcendental Idealism." British Journal for the History of Philosophy 11.1 (2003): 57-87. Web.


Video:

1) Bryan Magee and Frederick Copleston discuss Schopenhauer's philosophy.  The first half of this video is dedicated to explaining Schopenhauer's metaphysics and relationship to Kant.  This is helpful in order to wrap one's mind around what Schopenhauer is doing in The World as Will and Representation.  The latter half is dedicated to Schopenhauer's moral views and his influence on other thinkers.



2) This video by the School of Life is an overview of Schopenhauer's life and philosophy as presented in the "World as Will and Representation."  It does not go into much depth but suffices as a brief introduction for anyone not familiar with Schopenhauer.



3) This video was made by the Academy of Ideas.  It does a good job situating Schopenhauer's philosophy in its historical context as well as articulating the majority themes in his philosophy.



4) A satisfactory introduction to Schopenhauer's dissertation.


5) A satisfactory introduction to Schopenhauer's introduction to the "World as Will..."



6) Excellent overview of Schopenhauer's life and philosophy by Will Durrant.


7) These three videos are also excellent overviews of Schopenhauer's life and philosophy.  They are in German, however.







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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

On The Genealogy of Morals By Friedrich Nietzsche



Primary Print Sources*:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNyVWFMdJgoSIt4NGavvSkQ1) Nietzsche, Friedrich.  On The Genealogy of Morals. Trans. Walter Kaufmann and RJ Hollingdale.  New York: Vintage-Random House, 1967. Print.  Original publish date 1887.


2) Nietzsche, Friedrich.  "On The Genealogy of Morals." Basic Writings of Nietzsche. Ed. Walter Kaufmann. New York: Random House, 1967. 437-599. Print.  Original publish date 1887

3) Nietzsche, Friedrich. On The Genealogy of Morality. 2nd ed. Trans. Carol Diethe.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Original publish date 1887.

Secondary Video Sources:

1) Raymond Geuss Lecturing on Nietzsche's Genealogy: Click here to find the playlist for Prof. Geuss' lectures  

Lecture #1 is dedicated to historically situating Nietzsche and his project in the Genealogy.

Lecture #2 continues historical discussion and talks about the kind of thinking Nietzsche applies in the Genealogy.

Lecture #3 talks about Nietzsche's approach to morality.  Discusses "mythical" thinking vs. conceptual and abstract thinking.  Also, begins talking about master and slave morality.

Lecture #4 is dedicated to examining the first essay in the Genealogy.  Topics include, but are not limited to, master and slave morality and the slave revolt in morality.

Lecture #5 reviews some important ideas discussed in the first essay and begins an examination of the second essay in the Genealogy.  Topics covered include, but are not limited to, bad conscience, good conscience, promise making, memory, forgetfulness, moral responsibility, the internalization of pain, creditor and debtor.

Lecture #6 reviews material from previous lecture.  Moves into an examination of the third essay in the Genealogy.  Topics include, but are not limited to, ascetic practices, ascetic ideals, combining the first and second essays, priests and the attempt to alleviate the slaves' suffering.

Lecture #7 thoroughly reviews material from previous lecture.  Continues examination of the third essay. Topics include, but are not limited to, Christianity, asceticism, the relationship between the priests and slaves, nihilism, will to truth, and truth-telling.

Review: Overall this 7 part lecture is useful for broadly understanding the main themes and story in the Genealogy, as well as being introduced to the major concepts. The lecturer does not refer to the Genealogy throughout the lecture; however, this is probably because he assumes the students have already read the material. The professor is animated and passionate which helps keep the listener/viewer engaged.  This series is for anybody looking to begin a study of the Genealogy or looking to expand or shore up their understanding of the Genealogy.

2) Gregory B. Sadler Lecturing on Nietzsche's Genealogy: Click here to find the playlist for Prof. Sadler's lectures

Lecture #1 examines the first essay in the Genealogy.  Topics include, but are not limited to, the noble class, the priestly class, ressentiment, nihilism.

Lecture#2 examines the second essay in the Genealogy.  Topics covered include, but are not limited to, will to power, punishment, bad conscience, promise making, suffering, creditor and debtor.

Lecture #3 reviews materials from the previous lecture and begins an examination of the third essay in the Genealogy.  Topics include, but are not limited to, the ascetic ideal, asceticism, philosophers and scholars, the noble class, the priestly class, the herd.

Lecture #4 continues examining the third essay in the Genealogy.  Topics include, but are not limited to, what the ascetic priests do for the slave class, asceticism, ressentiment, Nietzsche's genealogical method, and conclusory remarks about the Genealogy.  

Review:  The lecturer relies heavily on Nietzsche's text often quoting passages at length and then following up with an analysis. This method is beneficial for providing textual context for the subsequent analysis of key ideas pulled from the quoted text.  Persons ranging from the novice to the more advanced may find this series beneficial, in that, it is a good introduction to Nietzsche's Genealogy in breadth without sacrificing depth, which the more advanced reader might appreciate. The lecturer does speak slowly which the novice reader may appreciate.  However, a more advanced reader may benefit from speeding up the video in order to move through more quickly.

3) Gregory B. Sadler Lecturing on Ethics and Nietzsche's Genealogy: Click here to find Prof. Sadler's lecture

Review: This single lecture, which runs about 52:28, includes, but is not limited to, examining the following topics in Nietzsche's Genealogy: might makes right, master and slave morality, the slave revolt in morality, and ressentiment.  This particular lecture is not for the advanced or intermediate reader of Nietzsche's Genealogy.  This lecture is aimed more toward a very limited and novice introduction to the Genealogy.  Thus, if one has little to no familiarity with the Genealogy, then this lecture is a good place to start.  However, the intermediate to advanced reader of the Genealogy may not find this useful.

Secondary Print Sources:

Books:

1) Schacht, Richard, ed. Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.  Print.



2) Ridely, Aaron. Nietzsche's Conscience: Six Character Studies from the Genealogy. Ithica: Cornell University Press, 1998. Print.


 3)  Wallace, Jay.  "Ressentiment, Value, Self-Vindication: Making Sense of Nietzsche's Slave Revolt." Nietzsche and Morality. Ed. Brian Leiter and Neil Sinhababu.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. 110-137. Print.
1)  Ridely, Aaron. "Guilt Before God, Or God Before Guilt?  The Second Essay of Nietzsche's Genealogy."  The Journal of Nietzsche Studies  29 (2005): 35-45. Project Muse. Web.
2)  Risse, Mathias.  "On god and guilt: A reply to Aaron Ridley."  The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 29 (2005): 46-53. Project Muse. Web.
3)  Risse, Mathias. "The Second Treatise in on the Genealogy of Morality: Nietzsche on the Origin of the Bad Conscious." European Journal of Philosophy 9.1 (2001): 55-81. Project Muse. Web.

 4) Owen, David. "The Contest of Enlightenment: An Essay on Critique and Genealogy." The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 25 (2003): 35-57. Project Muse. Web.

5)  Loeb, Paul S. "Finding the Ubermench in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality." The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 30 (2005): 70-101. Web.

6)  Hatab, Lawernce J. "How Does the Ascetic Ideal Function in Nietzsche's Genealogy?" The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 35/36 (2008): 106-123. Project Muse. Web.

7)  Owen, David. "Nietzsche's Genealogy Revisited." The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 35/36 (2008): 141-154. Project Muse.Web.
























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