Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-gxg78 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-23T03:34:07.278Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

WHO'S AFRAID OF FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE? EFFECTIVE AND INEFFECTIVE CRITICISMS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2010

Get access

Extract

When one finds a philosopher inspiring, it is all too easy to adopt an uncritical reading. This would be to treat the author as an exception. The hallmark of such arguments from reverence is that they often start with ‘As so-and-so said…’ and appear as the final statement on the matter. Friedrich Nietzsche is subject to such reverential treatment at the hand of undergraduate and A-Level devotees. I hope in the course of this brief survey to suggest some worthwhile criticisms of Nietzsche while at the same time point to criticisms that are ineffective. First, popular criticisms that I deem unsuccessful.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2010

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Recommended Reading

Nietzsche, F.Beyond Good and Evil. Penguin Classics, 1973.Google Scholar
Nietzsche, F.On the Genealogy of Morals. Oxford World Classics, 2009, Part 1.Google Scholar
Moore, G.E.Principia Ethica, Philosophers Stone, 2010, I, 1013.Google Scholar
Any Philosophical dichonoy's entry for informal fallacies such as the genetic fallacy.Google Scholar
Blackburn, S.Truth: A Guide for the perplexed, Oxford University Press, 2007. Chapter 4.Google Scholar