David Hume and Friedrich Nietzsche on Greatness without Humility

2017 ◽  
pp. 125-150
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
David Hume

scholarly journals Sobre la importancia del método en la formación filosófica.

Protrepsis ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 19-42
Author(s):  
José Alfonso Villa Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Ludwig Wittgenstein ◽  
David Hume ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Soren Kierkegaard ◽  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
Hans Georg Gadamer

La formación profesional en filosofía debe poner la misma atención al contenido de los filósofos estudiados que al método del que dichos filósofos se valen, pues unas ideas se dejan expresar de unos modos mejor que de otros, y unos problemas filosóficos reclaman ser tratados más con un género literario que con otro. De manera que el método en filosofía no es un asunto menor en la formación del profesional de la filosofía. El presente estudio profundiza en el método utilizado por algunos pensadores consagrados en la historia de la filosofía, tomando como ejemplo algún fragmento significativo de su producción. Se trata de autores de la talla de Platón, Santo Tomás de Aquino y Søren Kierkegaard, David Hume, Friedrich Nietzsche y Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Marx y el trabajo conjunto de Max Horkheimer y Theodor W. Adorno, Martin Heidegger y Hans-Georg Gadamer.

scholarly journals Aisthesis: uma breve introdução à estética dos afetos

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Renato Camassutti Bedore ◽  
Marcos Namba Beccari
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
David Hume ◽  
Baruch Spinoza

Este artigo pretende apresentar um panorama introdutório de estudos sobre estética a partir do viés dos afetos. Nesse sentido, a estética é balizada pelos afetos humanos e não pela correspondência com algum critério de beleza (visão consolidada nos campos das artes e do design). Assim, propomos a estética como um estudo mais amplo, que trata de questões que abrangem a vida como um todo e se pauta em conceitos relacionados ao modo como somos afetados sensivelmente pelo mundo. Tal visão inicia-se com noções derivadas do pensamento sofista, passa pelo epicurismo e se desenvolve nas filosofias de Baruch Spinoza, David Hume e Friedrich Nietzsche. Por esse prisma, a dimensão estética é entendida como crucial e incontornável em nossa relação com o mundo.

Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 108-112
Author(s):  
Craig A. Boyd ◽  
Kevin Timpe
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Practical Reason ◽  
David Hume ◽  
Moral Sentiment ◽  
The People ◽  
Good And Evil ◽  
Genealogy Of Morals

This concluding chapter highlights some criticisms of the virtues. David Hume and Friedrich Nietzsche both challenged the traditional construal of the virtues and their role. Hume’s approach to morality was based upon ‘moral sentiment’ where moral feelings were central to one’s deliberation about ethics and so one’s practical reason was simply a means to best secure the satisfaction of one’s various desires. Nietzsche argues that the traditional virtues are merely terms used and cultivated by the weak to control the strong. He draws up a ‘genealogy of morals’ and concludes that terms like ‘good’ and ‘evil’ have no real meaning apart from self-descriptions of the people who employ them.

Hume and Nietzsche

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. E. Kail
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
David Hume ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
Popular Images

In his contribution, the author discusses the deep and surprising similarities between the philosophies of David Hume and Friedrich Nietzsche. The author argues that these stem from their shared conception of naturalism. Their naturalism is primarily an explanatory one and primarily aimed at explaining human thought and practice. In Nietzsche, this form of naturalism is expressed in his adoption of a genealogical approach to various topics, most famously that of morality. The author shows that Hume’s naturalism is similarly genealogical. The author also argues that their conceptions of morality and the self are closer than popular images of the two philosophers might have it.

Introduction: Plato’s Nightmare

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Marmysz
Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Objective Reality

This introductory chapter examines the “problem” of nihilism, beginning with its philosophical origins in the ideas of Plato, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger. It is argued that film is an inherently nihilistic medium involving the evocation of illusory worlds cut loose from objective reality. This nihilism of film is distinguished from nihilism in film; the nihilistic content also present in some (but not all) movies. Criticisms of media nihilism by authors such as Thomas Hibbs and Darren Ambrose are examined. It is then argued, contrary to such critics, that cinematic nihilism is not necessarily degrading or destructive. Because the nihilism of film encourages audiences to linger in the presence of nihilism in film, cinematic nihilism potentially trains audiences to learn the positive lessons of nihilism while remaining safely detached from the sorts of dangers depicted on screen.

Adam Ferguson and the Idea of Civil Society

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Smith
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
David Hume ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
Scottish Enlightenment ◽  
Commercial Society ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
The University

Adam Ferguson was a Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and a leading member of the Scottish Enlightenment. A friend of David Hume and Adam Smith, Ferguson was among the leading exponents of the Scottish Enlightenment’s attempts to develop a science of man and was among the first in the English speaking world to make use of the terms civilization, civil society, and political science. This book challenges many of the prevailing assumptions about Ferguson’s thinking. It explores how Ferguson sought to create a methodology for moral science that combined empirically based social theory with normative moralising with a view to supporting the virtuous education of the British elite. The Ferguson that emerges is far from the stereotyped image of a nostalgic republican sceptical about modernity, and instead is one much closer to the mainstream Scottish Enlightenment’s defence of eighteenth century British commercial society.

Friedrich Nietzsche

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Lemm
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Georges Bataille ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Eternal Recurrence ◽  
German Philosopher ◽  
Point Of Reference

Readers of Giorgio Agamben would agree that the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) is not one of his primary interlocutors. As such, Agamben’s engagement with Nietzsche is different from the French reception of Nietzsche’s philosophy in Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Georges Bataille, as well as in his contemporary Italian colleague Roberto Esposito, for whom Nietzsche’s philosophy is a key point of reference in their thinking of politics beyond sovereignty. Agamben’s stance towards the thought of Nietzsche may seem ambiguous to some readers, in particular with regard to his shifting position on Nietzsche’s much-debated vision of the eternal recurrence of the same.

Essays on Hume, Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Berry
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
David Hume ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Scottish Enlightenment ◽  
Subsequent Work ◽  
Retrospective Assessment ◽  
The 1960S

A collection of essays by a leading scholar. The work selected spans several decades, which together with three new unpublished pieces, cumulatively constitute a distinct interpretation of the Scottish Enlightenment as a whole while incorporating detailed examination of the work of David Hume and Adam Smith. There is, in addition, a substantial introduction which, alongside Berry’s personal intellectual history, provides a commentary on the development of the study of the Scottish Enlightenment from the 1960s. Each of the previously published chapters includes a postscript where Berry comments on subsequent work and his own retrospective assessment. The recurrent themes are the ideas of sociability and socialisation, the Humean science of man and Smith’s analysis of the relation between commerce and morality.

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