Nietzsche on the Skeptics and Nietzsche as Skeptic

Bett, Richard

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“…Aside from considerations about the proper interpretation of GS 290, discussed in the text below, we doubt that Nietzsche was a committed skeptic in the ancient (practical) sense. Berry's () reading has the merit of making clear what such a commitment would amount to; see also Bett (). But in our view, that very result creates a steep slope for the friend of Nietzsche‐as‐skeptic.…”

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What Is ‘The Meaning of Our Cheerfulness’? Philosophy as a Way of Life in Nietzsche and Montaigne

Anderson

Cristy

2017

European J of Philosophy

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Robert Pippin has recently raised what he calls ‘the Montaigne problem’ for Nietzsche's philosophy: although Nietzsche advocates a ‘cheerful’ mode of philosophizing for which Montaigne is an exemplar, he signally fails to write with the obvious cheerfulness attained by Montaigne. We explore the moral psychological structure of the cheerfulness Nietzsche values, revealing unexpected complexity in his conception of the attitude. For him, the right kind of cheerfulness is radically non‐naïve; it expresses the overcoming of justified revulsion at calamitous aspects of life through a reflective, higher‐order affirmative attitude. This complex notion of cheerfulness turns out to have roots in Montaigne himself, and it must (according to both philosophers) be thought of as a kind of second nature cultivated through practice, as a kind of second nature. Understanding the meaning of cheerfulness thereby sheds light on the conception of philosophy as a way of life in both Nietzsche and Montaigne.

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What Is ‘The Meaning of Our Cheerfulness’? Philosophy as a Way of Life in Nietzsche and Montaigne

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Cristy

2017

European J of Philosophy

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“…Ext. III 3, KSA 3.363; Nachlass/FP 1873-74, 30 [8], KSA 7.733; Nachlass/FP 1882, 3 [1]119, KSA 10.67), contribuir com um debate específico, de caráter psicológico e sociológico. Um debate que, assim como se poderia supor com um olhar genealógico nietzschiano, se colocaria, sob o título de "criatividade", a serviço de uma causa que procura uma nova domesticação, particularmente sutil, do homem, em nome de um "ideal".…”

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Criatividade e ceticismo em Nietzsche

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2014

Cad. Nietzsche

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Nietzsche abandonou as ideias românticas sobre o processo de criatividade. Cada ato de criatividade é relacionado a meios e circunstâncias específicos. Não há lugar para a criação ex nihilo. Uma atividade criativa no último Nietzsche é o projeto de transvaloração de todos os valores. Ele quer abolir a transvaloração dos valores arcaicos antigos, realizada pelo judaísmo, platonismo e cristianismo. Assim, a transvaloração de Nietzsche tem de destruir os valores da moralidade escrava. Mas qual é esse processo criativo presumido na transvaloração? Que espécie de valores pode ser criada sem criar uma nova heteronomia - uma heteronomia que nega a criatividade? Nietzsche torna-se o advogado de um ceticismo particular que propicia a criatividade. Um ceticismo criativo como filosofia experimental.

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“…Ironically, Nietzsche uses the word 'happiness' (Glück) to refer to this and related ideals (although he uses it in other, very different ways as well); and his attitude is well summed up in a remark about the English -but with the English utilitarians particularly in mind: 'Humanity does not strive for happiness; only the 23 For basic materials from both authors, see Warnock (2003), Ryan (1987). 24 I have discussed this in Bett (2000a). A major reason for his ambivalence has to do with his attitude towards the notion of objective truth.…”

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Nietzsche on the Skeptics and Nietzsche as Skeptic

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What Is ‘The Meaning of Our Cheerfulness’? Philosophy as a Way of Life in Nietzsche and Montaigne

What Is ‘The Meaning of Our Cheerfulness’? Philosophy as a Way of Life in Nietzsche and Montaigne

Criatividade e ceticismo em Nietzsche

Can an ancient Greek sceptic be eudaimôn (or happy)? And what difference does the answer make to us?

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