I’m giving two talks in Rhode Island this week at Salve Regina University. Thanks to philosophy professor Khalil Habib for the invitation. One talk, “Nietzsche on Masters and Slaves,” is for SRU students only and will focus on the First Essay of Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals. Here’s
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Marco den Ouden’s in-depth book review: Nietzsche and the Nazis by Stephen R.C. Hicks “Hicks is driven by a nagging question — how could Nazism happen? Here was one of the most civilized countries in the world, sinking into a morass of hatred, violence and destruction. Why? “The answer is philosophy. ‘Not economics, not psychology,
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An interview with philosopher R. Kevin Hill, translator of the new edition of Nietzsche’s The Will to Power, published by Penguin in 2017.
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An audiobook version of my “Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand” is below or at YouTube: Text version published in The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 10:2, Spring 2009, 249-291. Also here as PDF. Also relevant: My chart (with sources) comparing Nietzsche’s and Rand’s positions on 96 philosophical issues.
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Eleven minutes excerpted from a 1998 lecture — below or at YouTube.
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In a letter to Karl Löwith, Leo Strauss wrote: “Nietzsche so dominated and charmed me between my 22nd and 30th years that I literally believed everything I understood of him.” My question about Strauss is whether (a) he later really abandoned Nietzsche or (b) his professed rejection of Nietzsche is a Platonic noble lie. I
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Mariupol State University Press has published the Ukrainian translation of my Nietzsche and the Nazis book. Much thanks to Dr. Przemysław Zientkowski for initiating the project and to the team at MSUP for producing it. Here is is the book’s description in English: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is famous for his statement that “God is dead”
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Nietzsche: “Being profound and seeming profound. —Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into
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This is a work in progress. Corrections and additions welcome. The long comparison table below is also here in PDF format. Summary 96 issues included as of April 2016. Agreements: 19 Disagreements: 70 Semi-agree/ disagree: 7 Of the agreements: Negative agreements: 8 Positive agreements: 11 Bibliography Nietzsche’s works cited Rand’s works cited A The Antichrist
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Here’s a review of my Nietzsche i naziści. Moje spojrzenie, tłum. I. Kłodzińska, (Chojnice: Oficyna Wydawnicza Fundacji Fuhrmanna, 2014). Its author is Ks. Janusz Chyła, who is on the theology faculty at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. It’s published in the journal Teologia i Człowiek. To my knowledge, this is the fifth scholarly
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