Meyer Reading Nietzsche through the Ancients

An Analysis of Becoming, Perspectivism, and the Principle of Non-Contradiction
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-934078-43-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 66, 317 Seiten

Reihe: Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung

Zielgruppe

Students and scholars of ancient philosophy and Nietzsche

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meyer, Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 19. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface and Acknowledgements;7
2;Abbreviations;9
3;Contents;11
4;Introduction;15
4.1;Reading Nietzsche’s Philosophy;15
4.2;Reading Nietzsche’s Published and Unpublished Writings;26
4.3;Reading Nietzsche’s Project through the Ancient Greeks;38
5;Chapter One. Becoming, Being, and the Problem of Opposites in Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks;48
5.1;1.1 Introduction;48
5.2;1.2 Tragic Philosophy in The Birth of Tragedy;50
5.3;1.3 A Turn to Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks;53
5.4;1.4 Nietzsche’s Doctrine of Heraclitean Becoming in the Secondary Literature;58
5.5;1.4.1 Christoph Cox on Heraclitean Becoming;59
5.6;1.4.2 John Richardson on Heraclitean Becoming;64
5.7;1.5 Heraclitean Becoming in Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks;68
5.8;1.6 The Response of Nietzsche’s Parmenides to Nietzsche’s Heraclitus;77
5.9;1.7 A Rebirth of Antiquity?;81
6;Chapter Two. Aristotle’s Defense of the Principle of Non-Contradiction in Metaphysics IV;89
6.1;2.1 Introduction;89
6.2;2.2 Nietzsche’s Critique of Logic;92
6.3;2.3 An Overview of Aristotle’s Defense of the Principle of Non-Contradiction;97
6.4;2.4 Three Formulations of the Principle of Non-Contradiction in Metaphysics IV;98
6.5;2.5 Aristotle’s Elenctic Defense;102
6.6;2.6 The Devastating Consequences of Denying PNC-Ontological;108
6.7;2.7 Empiricism, Naturalism, and the Denial of PNC-Ontological;116
6.8;2.8 Aristotle’s Critique of the Heraclitean-Cratylean Theory of Change;118
6.9;2.9 Aristotle’s Critique of Protagoras on Perception;122
6.10;2.10 Some Concluding Remarks;128
7;Chapter Three. Naturalism, Becoming, and the Unity of Opposites in Human, All Too Human;130
7.1;3.1 Introduction;130
7.2;3.2 Maudemarie Clark on the Falsification Thesis;133
7.3;3.3 Natural Science, Heraclitean Ontology, and the Falsification Thesis;137
7.4;3.4 Natural Science and Heraclitean Ontology in The Pre-Platonic Philosophers;142
7.5;3.5 A Turn to Human, All Too Human;144
7.6;3.6 Natural Science and Heraclitean Ontology in Human, All Too Human 1–2;149
7.7;3.7 Heraclitean Ontology and the Falsification Thesis in Human, All Too Human;154
7.8;3.8 The Tragic Philosophy of Human, All Too Human;161
7.9;3.9 Human, All Too Human and the Development of the Free Spirit;164
8;Chapter Four. Heraclitean Becoming and Protagorean Perspectivism in Plato’s Theaetetus;167
8.1;4.1 Introduction;167
8.2;4.2 Justifying the Turn to Plato’s Theaetetus;170
8.3;4.3 Knowledge is Perception and the Four Theses;172
8.4;4.4 Knowledge is Perception;175
8.5;4.5 From Knowledge is Perception to Protagoras’ Homo Mensura;176
8.6;4.6 From Homo Mensura to the Secret Doctrines of Heraclitus;178
8.7;4.7 A Preliminary Account of Perception and a Puzzle;182
8.8;4.8 Heraclitean Ontology and a Secret Theory of Perception;184
8.9;4.9 The Final Stage of the Secret Doctrine;189
8.10;4.10 Some Preliminary Objections to Protagoras’ Homo Mensura;192
8.11;4.11 Protagoras’ Homo Mensura and the Problem of Self-Refutation;195
8.12;4.12 The Incompatibility of Heraclitean Ontology and Knowledge is Perception;203
8.13;4.13 The Refutation of Knowledge is Perception;206
8.14;4.14 Some Concluding Remarks;209
9;Chapter Five. Heraclitean Becoming, Protagorean Perspectivism, and the Will to Power in Beyond Good and Evil;212
9.1;5.1 Introduction;212
9.2;5.2 Nietzsche’s Perspectivism in the Secondary Literature;216
9.3;5.3 Perspectivism in Gustav Teichmüller’s Die wirkliche und die scheinbare Welt;224
9.4;5.4 Nietzsche’s Perspectivism in The Gay Science and On the Genealogy of Morals;228
9.5;5.5 Some Preliminary Remarks on Beyond Good and Evil;234
9.6;5.6 Heraclitean Ontology and the Falsification Thesis in Beyond Good and Evil;236
9.7;5.7 Heraclitean Ontology and Protagorean Perspectivism in Beyond Good and Evil;246
9.8;5.8 Heraclitean Ontology and the Will to Power in Beyond Good and Evil;258
9.9;5.9 Reading the Will to Power through the Ancient Greeks;274
10;Epilogue. Five Prefaces to Five Unwritten Books on Nietzsche’s Published Works;279
10.1;Introduction;279
10.2;Preface I: Thus Spoke Zarathustra as the Rebirth of Tragedy;280
10.3;Preface II: The Birth of Tragedy and Its Shadow;282
10.4;Preface III: The Works of the Free Spirit and the Music-Playing Socrates;283
10.5;Preface IV: The Dionysian Comedy of Nietzsche’s 1888 Works;285
10.6;Preface V: The Revaluation of Values and Dionysus versus the Crucified;287
10.7;Concluding Remarks;290
11;Appendix. The Periodization of Nietzsche’s Works;291
12;Bibliography;293
13;Index;311