Placing Nietzsche's First Philosophy into a New Perspective
Provider: Grantová agentura ČR
Programme: POSTDOC INDIVIDUAL FELLOWSHIP - INCOMING
Implementation period: 01.03.22 - 31.05.25
Workplace:
Fakulta filozofická - Oddělení filosofie
Investigator: Wood William Peter
Description:
The project will present a novel interpretation of Nietzsche?s Beyond Good and Evil through a close reading of the first 44 aphorisms of the book as an interconnected sequence and a detailed interpretation of the structure and argument of the remaining chapters. The interpretation emphasizes Nietzsche?s relationship to ancient philosophy, especially Socrates and Plato, and to German Idealism, especially Kant and Hegel. Nietzsche?s aim in the book is to recover the ancient idea of philosophy as a way of life, while also grounding a novel conception of first philosophy as psychology. Nietzsche opposes both traditional conceptions of first philosophy as cosmology, theology or general ontology as well as modern empiricist or materialist rejections of first philosophy. Nietzsche grounds his novel first philosophy through a reflexive insight into the origin of all determinacy in experience in the interpretive activity of the intellect and argues that the lifelong ?incorporation? (Einverleibung) of this insight makes possible an elevated way of life and form of being-in-the-world
The project will present a novel interpretation of Nietzsche?s Beyond Good and Evil through a close reading of the first 44 aphorisms of the book as an interconnected sequence and a detailed interpretation of the structure and argument of the remaining chapters. The interpretation emphasizes Nietzsche?s relationship to ancient philosophy, especially Socrates and Plato, and to German Idealism, especially Kant and Hegel. Nietzsche?s aim in the book is to recover the ancient idea of philosophy as a way of life, while also grounding a novel conception of first philosophy as psychology. Nietzsche opposes both traditional conceptions of first philosophy as cosmology, theology or general ontology as well as modern empiricist or materialist rejections of first philosophy. Nietzsche grounds his novel first philosophy through a reflexive insight into the origin of all determinacy in experience in the interpretive activity of the intellect and argues that the lifelong ?incorporation? (Einverleibung) of this insight makes possible an elevated way of life and form of being-in-the-world
