Friedrich Nietzsche's Life and Philosophy

All right. So, here we go. So, all right. One last note.

The way I want to do these is not a detailed presentation of the analysis of each philosopher's philosophy itself. I want to do a little bit of that. But I' I've discovered with my students is that no one can remember that. Unless you like write long papers on this, you can't exactly track out the seven kinds of phenomena that Kant has outlined, right?

you just keep it in your head. Was that a numina or a nominal event? Right? I don't know.

Um so what I want to do is put them first in a historical context and then a biographical context for why any particular philosopher might choose these particular sets of problems to address and then how they went about addressing those uh uh particular problems in their philosophy. If you got the handout, does anybody need more? Is do we still need handouts? They're photocopying them.

are coming. Um, it includes a very brief uh biography of nature written by me. Hands up. Who needs the who needs a hands up?

And there we go. Um, and then long quotes from various ancient works. And one of the things I want to emphasize in this lecture and all the lectures, I really suggest reading the philosophers. It's good to read about philosophers.

is good to read studies of philosophers, but at some point it's most important to actually read the philosophers themselves. So, I've given you some long chunks from several works to give you an idea of what nature's writing and thinking is like. Um, whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, I don't know. All right, so we have a couple more who need handouts here.

You can have mine. I might have that back in. All right. um nija to begin with it's two people Napoleon and Kant always Napoleon and Kant what Napoleon did is destroy the entire social structure of Europe more or less in one big snatch the French Revolution got it rolling um and then Napoleon came through and destroyed the other monarchies he destroyed the aristocracies he destroyed the entire social structure of Europe And then of course to finish it off he destroyed himself which was convenient.

He was an agent of change but almost entirely negative. He just went around ...