After God – The Normative Power of the Will from the Nietzschean Perspective

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the author
• About the book
• This eBook can be cited
• Table of Contents
• Abbreviations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I. The ontological and epistemological assumptions of Nietzsche’s philosophy
• Chapter 1. The meaning of the ‘death of God’ and its ontological consequences
• I. Unbelievable belief
• II. The moral-metaphysical structure of the world
• 1. The loss of the feeling of transcendence
• 2. The abolition of the dualism between the apparent world and the real
• 3. The ‘New Philosophy’: beyond idealism and positivism
• Chapter 2. ‘The sponge to wipe away the horizon’: the normative character of cognition
• I. A Critique of the will to truth
• 1. Knowledge as an adventure of the spirit
• 2. The rejection of metaphysical truth: the will to appearance instead of the will to truth
• 2.1. Truth as a useful illusion
• 2.2. Truth as a metaphor
• II. Perspectivism
• 1. Language
• 2. Interpretation: lawfulness and justice
• 2.1. Linguistic interpretation
• 2.2. Genealogical interpretation
• Chapter 3. The genealogical method and its philosophical applications
• I. Psychological realism
• II. The origins of morality: ressentiment
• 1. The concept of ressentiment
• 2. The reversal of values
• 3. Ressentiment and Christianity
• 4. Ressentiment as a source of contemporary spiritual crisis
• III. The origins of laws: degrees of power
• 1. Law in the metaphysical sense: justice as pre-established order
• 2. Justice as mutual advantage
• 2.1. Rectificatory justice
• 2.2. Customary law and statutory law: the role of custom and coercion
• 3. ‘The genius of justice’: the self-sublimation of justice in love
• Part II. Nietzschean Anthropodicy
• Chapter 4. Metamorphoses of the spirit: the normative character of the will to power
• I. The ethics of duty: ‘Thou Shalt’
• 1. Ought, obligation, duty
• 2. Guilt, responsibility
• 3. A critique of the ethics of duty
• II. The Will: ‘I will’
• 1. Free Will
• 2. Weak and strong wills
• 3. The will to power
• 4. The conception of agency and agent
• 4.1. Will (willing) and acts of will (acting)
• 4.2. The construction of the subject
• III. The total innocence of becoming: ‘I am’
• Chapter 5. The creative will as an expression of the self overcoming life
• I. The necessity of becoming oneself
• 1. Willing a self
• 2. Creating the self and our laws
• 3. The desire to give the self: the bestowing virtue
• II. Overcoming the human
• 1. Transcending without transcendence
• 2. Übermensch
• Chapter 6. The will to return – amor fati
• I. The cosmological interpretation of the idea of eternal return
• II. The ethical-existential interpretation of the idea of the eternal recurrence
• III. The metaphysical interpretation of the idea of the eternal recurrence
• 1. Unhistorical, historical and suprahistorical consciousness
• 2. The myth of the eternal recurrence and the Dionysian formula of existence: amor fati
• 3. Subjectivity and the experience of time
• 4. The Riddle of Zarathustra
• IV. The mystical interpretation of the eternal recurrence
• Endings: Philosophical Don Juanism
• References
• Nietzsche’s Works
• Literature
• Series index