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Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most important and influential philosophers of the nineteenth century. In recent decades, there has been a resurgence of interest in his thought due to the potential it has to contribute to contemporary conversations in Anglophone philosophy on knowledge, ethics, and moral psychology. Yet this resurgence of interest is also due to a distinctive feature of Nietzsche’s thought: his deep and serious engagement with some of the perennial questions of human existence. How might we live meaningfully? What are the limits of human freedom? Is knowledge possible? What is the structure of reality? The Elements in this series offer balanced, comprehensive coverage of the leading areas of Nietzsche research. Collectively, the series provides a comprehensive guide to Nietzsche’s philosophy and its continuing impact.

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2 results in Elements in the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche on the Eternal Recurrence
  • Neil Sinhababu
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    January 2025
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    31 January 2025
  • The idea of the eternal recurrence is that we will live the exact same lives again an infinite number of times. Nietzsche appreciates that this would multiply the value of a single life by infinity, justifying intense emotional responses. His unpublished notes provide a cosmological argument for the eternal recurrence that anticipates Poincaré's recurrence theorem. Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra describes its hero discovering this idea and struggling to accept the recurrence of all bad things. He eventually comes to love the eternal recurrence because it will bring back all the joys of his life, and teaches this idea to others.

Nietzsche's Revaluation of All Values
  • Thomas H. Brobjer
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    January 2025
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    31 January 2025
  • Why is Nietzsche's thought and philosophy still regarded as relevant today? There are a large number of possible answers to a question like this, but one of the most important and persuasive is that Nietzsche questioned and discussed the nature, character and value of our values. Nietzsche frequently turns other questions such as epistemological and ontological ones into axiological ones, making values pivotal in his thought. It is possible to argue that the revaluation of all values is both the most important and today the most relevant of Nietzsche's main philosophical themes and projects. Furthermore, the theme is intimately involved with what Nietzsche regarded as his most important work, his magnum opus (that he called his Hauptwerk), for a long period called The Will to Power but later Revaluation of All Values.