tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post1106065364683225840..comments2023-11-30T06:32:59.453-06:00Comments on Brian Leiter's Nietzsche Blog: Two New Books on Nietzsche: One Introductory, One for Scholars and Advanced StudentsBrian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-53266128438465147032009-10-05T13:28:39.004-06:002009-10-05T13:28:39.004-06:00I wonder if this reflection by Doris and Prinz nea...I wonder if this reflection by <a href="http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=17705" rel="nofollow">Doris and Prinz</a> near the end of their review of Appiah's ex-phil book might not be marshaled in support of the plausibility of Gardner's reading:<br /><br /><i>The focus of Western moral philosophy has been on questions like "How should I act?" or "What sort of person should IRobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10546265581296919974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-32030733599658059182009-06-26T12:15:25.321-06:002009-06-26T12:15:25.321-06:00Paul is correct, the Will as Secondary Cause readi...Paul is correct, the Will as Secondary Cause reading, does deny his #2 (and I take it Nietzsche denies it too, indeed, it is one of the import of the D 107 passage on self-mastery).Brian Leiterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-38151514997334570032009-06-26T09:31:27.504-06:002009-06-26T09:31:27.504-06:00Paul, thanks for your reply. I’m eager to read yo...Paul, thanks for your reply. I’m eager to read your paper when it becomes available. <br /> <br />I’ve been puzzling for a while over the issue of (2) in Nietzsche. There are moments in which he seems to be implying not only that drives <i>prompt</i> reflective or self-conscious episodes of choice, or influence/generate perceptual saliences in terms of which they (the episodes) operate, but Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10546265581296919974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-21016778790952721182009-06-25T12:33:13.827-06:002009-06-25T12:33:13.827-06:00Hi Rob,
Thanks for your note on my work. I agree...Hi Rob,<br /><br />Thanks for your note on my work. I agree that my proposed interpretation of Nietzsche is compatible with Brian’s will-as-secondary-cause reading, and incompatible with the will-as-epiphenomenal reading. However, I just thought I should point out that my interpretation doesn’t require that the will be only a secondary cause; it is, I think, compatible with more robust notions Paul Katsafanashttp://www.unm.edu/~katsafannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-49010922214166428052009-06-25T11:51:24.528-06:002009-06-25T11:51:24.528-06:00I have not had a chance to read Gemes essay in Nie...I have not had a chance to read Gemes essay in Nietzsche on Freedom and Autonomy yet so I am not sure what approach he takes to this "moralizing reading" you mention. But I was suprised to hear that he opposes your view on the causality of the will because he clearly describes a similar position in his "Postmodernism's Use and Abuse of Nietzsche"(2001).<br /><br />There Timothy McWhirterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12997985453379882318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-50207068933102424802009-06-23T11:44:20.348-06:002009-06-23T11:44:20.348-06:00Among several interconnected drafts available on h...Among several interconnected drafts available <a href="http://www.unm.edu/~katsafan/publications.html" rel="nofollow">on his web page</a>, Katsafanas provides a compelling account of Nietzschean drives (as dispositions affecting or generating an agent's perspective toward drives' ends) which seems to tally with your notion (in "Nietzsche's Theory of the Will", p. 13) of the Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10546265581296919974noreply@blogger.com