tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post1496358158422167701..comments2023-11-30T06:32:59.453-06:00Comments on Brian Leiter's Nietzsche Blog: Revised and Penultimate Draft of "Who is the 'Sovereign Individual?' Nietzsche on Freedom" Now On-LineBrian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-36712286068422598682009-11-07T07:23:08.642-06:002009-11-07T07:23:08.642-06:00High praise for Julius also comes in TI, Expeditio...High praise for Julius also comes in TI, Expeditions, 31 - just seven sections before the one David first mentions. <br /><br />It's the one called "Another problem of Diet". <br /><br />The diet of Caesar, that is, his continuous outdoor military life, Nietzsche here reads as a "preservative and protective" measure in support of what he calls "that subtle machine Tim Themihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00558876148930682134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-34855439875014770182009-10-31T19:13:37.726-06:002009-10-31T19:13:37.726-06:00There's a small typo in the second line of pag...There's a small typo in the second line of page 3: the 'me' should be 'we'.Eliothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03833608478735259467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-61328210747310617952009-10-26T12:50:55.633-06:002009-10-26T12:50:55.633-06:00There's a quite different approach to "me...There's a quite different approach to "men of action" (including Caesar) in Daybreak549, which has more in common with the tone of BGE269's unflattering analysis of "great men" in general.<br /><br />But in WP544, Caesar is again described as one of "the highest human beings". See also WP1026 where, it seems to me, Napoleon is rated 'below' Caesar. davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07891569365376467522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-85825611485958779082009-10-23T12:35:22.959-06:002009-10-23T12:35:22.959-06:00Is there any other passage in which Ceasar is disc...Is there any other passage in which Ceasar is discussed? Goethe is quite correctly cited in this regard, and Goethe is I believe discussed far more often than Caesar.Brian Leiterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-201819615865991152009-10-22T20:14:16.377-06:002009-10-22T20:14:16.377-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07891569365376467522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-91638365879367409852009-10-22T20:13:49.995-06:002009-10-22T20:13:49.995-06:00I agree with your stress on "type-facts"...I agree with your stress on "type-facts" and that, in truth, Nietzsche regards "freedom" (as traditionally conceived), as an impossibility and a convenient (for some) fiction. However, I find it odd that, in relation to Nietzsche's conception of "freedom" no mention of Caesar was made in your paper? Given that this is the explicit topic of TI.Exp.38.,and that davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07891569365376467522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-47802620803513664432009-10-19T12:33:13.003-06:002009-10-19T12:33:13.003-06:00We may not freely choose our actions, but they are...We may not freely choose our actions, but they are causally determined by, among other things, our affects. And the image of the eternal return can, of course, arouse our affects, and thus affect our actions.Brian Leiterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-80079399878628470922009-10-19T04:49:32.597-06:002009-10-19T04:49:32.597-06:00I am curious how you would read the Eternal Return...I am curious how you would read the Eternal Return in light of this paper.<br /><br /><i>The question in each and every thing, 'Do you desire this once more and innumerable times more?' would lie upon your actions as the greatest weight.</i><br /><br />If one is not able to choose one's actions in any significant sense, what do you believe N. means with this passage?Harold Hallerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08640260023433903613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-79092619154732967882009-10-13T14:44:46.069-06:002009-10-13T14:44:46.069-06:00That's an interesting passage, thanks for catc...That's an interesting passage, thanks for catching that.Brian Leiterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-23805991314008573692009-10-13T14:34:01.376-06:002009-10-13T14:34:01.376-06:00Maybe worth noting that among the earlier work Nie...Maybe worth noting that among the earlier work Nietzsche cites in section four of GM's Preface is D 112, which features this passage:<br /><br /><i>...the feeling of duty depends upon our having the same <b>belief</b> in regard to the extent of our power as others have: that is to say, that we <b>are able</b> to promise certain things and bind ourselves to perform them (“freedom of will”).</iRobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10546265581296919974noreply@blogger.com