PP203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Kantian Ethics, Retributive Justice, Slut
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Lecture part i - posted tues 17th - read selections from the portable. 1869 professor of classics at age 24, u of basel. 1879 retires from teaching due to ill health. 1889 jan 3, collapses into dementia on the street in turin. Nietzsche"s life - pious christian boyhood, son of lutheran pastor. Studied classical philology, especially the ancient greeks - professor at 24. Philosophical writer - mental breakdown at 44. Nietzsche"s writing - mostly wrote books of numbered aphorisms, style more unsystematic and literary than most philosophers. Thus spoke zarathustra - features a prophet who teaches in quasi-biblical style. Genealogy of morals - his most treatise-like work. Nietzsche"s legacy - as inspiration for writers/artists (early 20th century) As proto-fascist (his conventional sister later supported nazis) As existentialist post-ww2 (along with kierkegaard, heidegger, sartre) Recent efforts to bring him into canon of ethical theory. Virtue beyond morality - nietzsche"s ethical naturalism (my ph. d thesis, 1999)
