Note on the Plan of Nietzsche’s «Beyond Good and Evil»

2020 ◽  
pp. 44-62
Keyword(s):  
Leo Strauss ◽  
Transitional State ◽  
Specific Manner ◽  
The Future ◽  
Individual Nature ◽  
Nature Perception ◽  
Concept Of Truth ◽  
Good And Evil ◽  
Universal Nature

Note on the Plan of Nietzsche’s «Beyond Good and Evil» is one of the last of Leo Strauss’ works and his only written work devoted to Nietzsche’s philosophy. In the Note Strauss — in his specific manner of writing — consecutively analyses all nine chapters of «Beyond Good and Evil», trying show peculiar qualities of each chapter. Simultaneously he emphasizes some decisive features of Nietzsche’s philosophy in general. Among which one can name: a new concept of truth (as a result of creation and not of contemplation), anti-Platonism (an attempt of abolition or revaluation of Socrates’ legacy), the problem of nature (a transformation of universal nature into individual nature), perception of modern freedom as a transitional state from one kind of slavery to another which will be much greater and harsher. All of these efforts must give to the reader clearer, though, naturally, partisan image of the philosophy of the future, prelude to which this work constitutes.

scholarly journals Heresy and Orthodoxy Now: The Zigzagging Paths of the Lawful

Text Matters ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 213-222
Author(s):  
Marta Zając
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Structure ◽  
The State ◽  
The West ◽  
Wrong Thing ◽  
Secular Age ◽  
Concept Of Truth ◽  
Good And Evil

In this article I consider a certain characteristic of our times as a “secular age,” namely, a series of complications in our understanding of transgression. Transgression implies the presence of some rules and laws which can be violated. As long as the rules and laws are perceived as right, as a way of protecting the values which would otherwise perish, transgression appears to be a wrong thing to do, a misdeed, a criminal act. Needless to say, the very conceptual structure makes sense only provided that the distinctions between right and wrong, good and evil, lawful and lawless are not arbitrary, which, in turn, depends on the presence of the concept of truth. In the secular age, though, the concept of truth becomes not only difficult to handle, since it is incompatible with the modern frame of mind, but also assumes some derogatory connotations, up to the point when to insist on the distinction between (truly) right and (truly) wrong is in itself a wrong thing to do. That is the state of contemporary societies which G. K. Chesterton examines in his work Heretics. The effect of Chesterton’s reflections is a new map of right/wrong, good/evil, lawless/lawful permutations. After Chesterton, I comment on the character of a new heretic, one for whom transgression, understood as the attack on buried-for-long orthodoxy, is too easy a thing to do. To illustrate the mentioned changes of perspective, I refer to an exemplary criminal figure of the West, that is, the biblical serpent, and its criticism.

Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Science of the Future

2006 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 319-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Endre E. Kadar ◽  
Judith A. Effken
Keyword(s):  
The Future ◽  
Good And Evil

On Cropsey's World: Joseph Cropsey and the Tradition of Political Philosophy

1998 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-342
Author(s):  
Gregory Bruce Smith
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Leo Strauss ◽  
The Future ◽  
Ongoing Dialogue ◽  
Made In

Throughout his corpus, Joseph Cropsey reflects upon the tradition of political philosophy. Those reflections can be fruitfully approached under four headings. First, Cropsey questions the nature and origins of political philosophy as well as its cosmological or metaphysical foundations. Second, Cropsey questions the customary periodizations of the tradition of political philosophy. He especially questions the usefulness of the ancients-moderns distinction. Third, Cropsey reflects upon the relation between the tradition of political philosophy and concrete political life past and present. In the process, he tries to show the ways in which comprehensive constellations of ideas work their way into and inform everyday life. Fourth, Cropsey reflects upon the nature of the American regime and its prospects for the future. Throughout, it becomes clear that Cropsey has engaged in an ongoing dialogue with his mentor Leo Strauss. Finally, it also becomes clear, contrary to recent assertions made in response to Plato's World, that Cropsey engages in a series of subtle critiques of Nietzschean and Heideggerian historicism and thereby of contemporary postmodernism as well.

scholarly journals Narratives of the future: immersive stories / indigenous roots

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Swift
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
First Nation ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
The World ◽  
Specific Manner ◽  
The Future ◽  
Performance Challenges ◽  
The Way

The way we tell stories shapes what we are: it articulates the way we position ourselves in relation to the world. This article explores how immersive practices, as used in virtual reality and intermedial performance, provoke novel dynamics between artist and audience that no longer fit within Western traditions of aesthetic exchange and furthermore challenge our understanding of narrative production and reception. It proposes that new ways of reasoning are needed to allow audience agency and the evolving role of the artist to be explored more fully than is currently possible in mainstream theatre scholarship. One source that can provide a model for considering the dynamics between audience and performer in immersive performance is the Indigenous story systems of Australia. There is a significant synergy between the structure and operation of First Nation songlines and contemporary immersive performance. This is explored with reference to the work of contemporary anthropologists and Indigenous scholars and to recent immersive work from the companies Kaleider and Theatre Conspiracy. The article considers how both ancient narratives and contemporary immersive practices require people to engage with data/ physical space in a specific manner in order for stories to be realised. Furthermore, both bestow creative responsibility and the role of custodian on the user, through whose actions narrative is manifested. Immersive performance challenges assumptions about how information is generated, processed, and passed on, and the power structures involved in such exchanges. This research explores how non-traditional narrative practices can assist the debate about the future of storytelling.

scholarly journals Beyond Good and Evil. Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future.

1908 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Frank Thilly ◽  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Helen Zimmern
Keyword(s):  
The Future ◽  
Good And Evil

Towards Darkness and Death: Racial Demonology in South Africa

1988 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 567-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Hugo
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Class Conflict ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Good And Evil

Many students of human relations in South Africa would probably agree that an understanding of the policy of racial separation and the general determination of whites not to yield power to the black majority necessitates an awareness of their fears. The importance of this factor can hardly be overlooked, especially if it is defined broadly along the lines suggested by Philip Mason in his succinct study of racial tensions around the globe: There are fears of all kinds… There is the vague and simple fear of something strange and unknown, there is the very intelligible fear of unemployment, and the fear of being outvoted by people whose way of life is quite different. There are fears for the future and memories of fear in the past, fears given an extra edge by class conflict, by a sense of guilt, by sex and conscience… Fear may also act as a catalytic agent, changing the nature of factors previously not acutely malignant, such as the association in metaphor of the ideas of white and black with good and evil… Where the dominant are in the minority they are surely more frightened.1

8. Globality, morality, and the future

2021 ◽  
pp. 107-122
Author(s):  
Richard Whatmore
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
Leo Strauss ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
History Of Political Thought ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Proletarian Revolution ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Political Actions ◽  
Cambridge School

‘Globality, morality, and the future’ recounts the 1960s research in the history of political thought, which was inspired by the writings of Leo Strauss, Michel Foucault, Reinhart Koselleck, and the Cambridge School authors. The reconstruction of the meaning of texts can be seen through the scholars’ ideological contexts and perspectives. Despite the rejection of Marxist categories for interrogating history and proletarian revolution, the world created by capitalism continues to be attacked for its endemic war and fanatical politics. Aspects of the history of political thought trained scholars to see the problems of contemporary society. The history of political thought allowed political actions to be charted and evaluated for success.

scholarly journals Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future.

1908 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 557
Author(s):  
Grace Neal Dolson ◽  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Helen Zimmern
Keyword(s):  
The Future ◽  
Good And Evil
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