Kierkegaard and Nietzsche on the Best Way of Life [electronic resource] : A New Method of Ethics /
Miles, Thomas P.author.
Kierkegaard and Nietzsche revive an ancient approach to ethics that evaluates different ways of life considered as a whole. Comparing and contrasting their respective ideals of faith and individual sovereignty, this work reveals a valuable new path for contemporary ethics.
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Cover; Half-Title ; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Kierkegaard's Ways of Life; 1.1 The aesthetic way of life; 1.2 The ethical way of life; 6.3 The best life as a life of deep spirituality; 1.3 The religious way of life; 2 Nietzsche's Ways of Life; 2.1 Historical ways of life: master and slave, noble and ascetic; 2.2 Nietzsche's new higher type: the "free spirit"; 2.3 Nietzsche's new higher type: the "new philosopher"; 2.4 Nietzsche's new higher type: the "sovereign individual"; 3 Kierkegaard on Internal Collapse as Despair
3.1 Despair considered in general3.2 Types of despair; 3.3 Despair as a "corridor to faith"; 4 Nietzsche on Internal Collapse as Nihilism; 4.1 Nietzsche's notions of decay, nihilism, and d é cadence; 4.2 The genealogy of nihilism; 4.3 Nietzsche's notion of redemption through self-overcoming; 5 Contrasting Kierkegaard and Nietzsche; 5.1 How Nietzscheans have critiqued Kierkegaard's ideal; 5.2 How Kierkegaardians have critiqued Nietzsche's ideal; 5.3 Kierkegaard vs. Nietzsche on the best way of life; 6 Comparing Kierkegaard and Nietzsche; 6.1 The best life as a life of strong individuality
6.2 The best life as a life of joyful life-affirmation7 Conclusions; 7.1 The method of ethics that Kierkegaard and Nietzsche share; 7.2 The value of this method for contemporary ethics; 7.3 Avenues for research within this method of doing ethics; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Kierkegaard and Nietzsche revive an ancient approach to ethics that evaluates different ways of life considered as a whole. Comparing and contrasting their respective ideals of faith and individual sovereignty, this work reveals a valuable new path for contemporary ethics.
Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.
Ethics.
Philosophy and social sciences.
Philosophy.
Logic.
Ethics.
Moral Philosophy.
Philosophy of the Social Sciences.
History of Philosophy.
Logic.