NIETZSCHE’S GREEK ETHICS: HIS EARLY ETHICAL SYMPTOMATOLOGY RECONSTRUCTED ƴ ȋCollège Édouard-Montpetit/Centre canadien d’études allemandes et européennes) This paper seeks to circumscribe the concepts, sources, and limits of Nietzsche’s early ethical thought through a reconstruction of his
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Greeks understood the true nature of the political phenomenon, and that this could correct fundamental errors that were responsi
Ǥ ϔ ethos radically challenges modern democratic politics through a reassertion of aristocratic, heroic, and agonistic values. But because Nietzsche did not systematically describe his early ethics, a reconstruction is necessary. His metaphor of the philosopher as a “physician of culture” is a guide for this reconstruction. Using con
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ϔ fferent symptoms and possible remedies, and hoped to cure German culture through a therapeutic transvaluation of modernity. To reconstruct this symptomatology I turn to The Greek State, Homer’s Contest, and Ǥ ǡ ϔ of “agon” and “eris” that are central to his reading of Greek ethics. I then describe four ethical symptoms and their remedies. I conclude with interpretative hypotheses that address issues that were left unanswered by Nietzsche. This symptomatology shows that his reading of Greek ethics functions as a radical—albeit fragmentary—normative critique of his time, and of our democratic age.
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ǣǡ͢͠͞͞Ȍǡͤ͟Ǥ͢͢Ǥ 40
ǡThe Greeks and Greek Civilizationǡͤ͟͠Ǥ 41 Ibid.ǡͤ͟͢Ǥ 42 Ibid.ǡͤͣ͟Ǥ 43
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i ǡ ǡ
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dz The Greek State Dz ǡdz Dz
ǡ ǡǤdzȋ ǡͥͤͦȌ
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is
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ǡ The Genealogy of Moralsǡ ȋǤȌ Ǥ -ǡ ȋǤȌ Ǥ ȋǣǡͧͧ͟͢ȌǡǤ 49 ͧ͟͢͟
ǡ
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Dz ǥ ͣͫǤ Jahrhundert zu einem auf alle Zeiten und Völker übertragenen Allgemeinbegriff…gemacht werden konnte.”
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Ƭ ǡ ͧͣ͟͢Ȍǡͥͤ͡Ǥ 50 ǡ Dz
ǯ ǡdz International Journal of the Classical TraditionǡǤ͢ǡǤ͡ȋͧͧͦ͟Ȍǣ͢͠͠Ǥ 48
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ȋ ǡͥͤͦȌǡǤ ȋ ǡ ͥͥ͞Ȍ
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