Book contents
- Nietzsche’s Moral Psychology
- Nietzsche’s Moral Psychology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations of Nietzsche’s Works and Translations
- Part I Introduction
- Chapter 1 Précis
- Chapter 2 Methodology: Introducing Digital Humanities to the History of Philosophy
- Part II Nietzsche’s Socio-Moral Framework
- Part III Nietzschean Virtues
- Part IV Conclusion
- References
- Index
Chapter 2 - Methodology: Introducing Digital Humanities to the History of Philosophy
from Part I - Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 August 2019
- Nietzsche’s Moral Psychology
- Nietzsche’s Moral Psychology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations of Nietzsche’s Works and Translations
- Part I Introduction
- Chapter 1 Précis
- Chapter 2 Methodology: Introducing Digital Humanities to the History of Philosophy
- Part II Nietzsche’s Socio-Moral Framework
- Part III Nietzschean Virtues
- Part IV Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
In this chapter, Alfano explains and showcases the results of the digital humanities methodology that informs the book. Using the Nietzsche Source, Alfano labels every passage in Nietzsche's published and authorized manuscripts for the presence or absence of several dozen moral psychological concepts, such as drive, instinct, virtue, value, life, health, integrity, and a range of discrete virtues and emotions. He then uses this dataset to conduct statistical analyses of the prevalence and co-occurence of concepts, as well as semantic network visualization to summarize his findings. The chapter is partly argumentative and partly didactic, insofar as Alfano aims to convince his readers of the usefulness of his approach and show them how they could employ it in their own research.
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- Nietzsche's Moral Psychology , pp. 12 - 46Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019