A History of Overcoming: Nietzsche on the Moral Antecedents and Successors of Modern Liberalism
Description:
This work aims to understand human moral psychology under modern liberalism by analyzing the mature work of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. I seek to understand and evaluate Nietzsche's claim that liberalism, rather than being an overturning of slave morality, is an extension of the slave morality present in both Judaism and Christianity. To ground Nietzsche's critique of liberalism theoretically, I begin by analyzing his "master" and "slave" concepts. With these concepts clarified, I then app…
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Date:
December 2016
Creator:
Gill, Rodney W.