Nietzsche on Mind and Nature
by Oxford University
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Description
Keynote speeches and special session given at the international conference 'Nietzsche on Mind and Nature', held at St. Peter's College, Oxford, 11-13 September 2009, organized by the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford.
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VideoThe Genealogy of Guilt | Nietzsche's objective is not to challenge the Christian non-naturalistic account of guilt but to show that Christian representation of guilt is a product of the exploitation of human susceptibility to guilt as instrument of self-directed cruelty | 12/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoNietzsche on Soul in Nature: An Ecological Perspective | This keynote speech examines if, according to Nietzsche, experience of nature is inevitably conditioned by some archetypal phantasm or cultural construction process or if unmediated apprehension of nature is possible | 12/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoWho is the 'Sovereign Individual?' Nietzsche on Freedom | Nietzsche's Sovereign Individual (SI) argues that 1. Nietzsche denies free will and moral responsibility. 2. SI in no way supports a denial of 1. 3. Nietzsche engages in a 'persuasive definition' of the language of Freedom and Free Will | 12/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoConsciousness, Language and Nature: Nietzsche's Philosophy of Mind and Nature | On the triangulation between consciousness, language and nature in Nietzsche's philosophy and contemporary philosophy of mind and proposes a philosophy of signs and interpretation as a basis for a philosophy of mind, language and nature | 12/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoNietzsche's Metaphysics | Nietzsche rejects a persisting self; real distinctions of objects and properties, categorical and dispositional properties, causes and effects; free will. He holds that determinism is true, reality is one and fundamentally experiential | 12/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoNietzsche's Value Monism - Saying Yes to Everything | Lecture on Nietzsche's attack on Value Dualism, as well as the view he offers instead and whether Nietzsche can sustain his Value Monism-the view that everything is good-given the pressures that pull him back into saying no as well as yes | 12/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoNietzsche Source. Scholarly Nietzsche editions on the web | Introduction to the scholarly editions of Nietzsche Source: the digital critical edition based on Colli/Montinary, the digital edition of the Nietzsche estate including works, manuscripts and letters and the future genetic edition of Nietzsche's works | 12/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 7 Episodes |
