On Nietzsche's historical philosophy
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation takes up the question of exactly why Nietzsche insisted, as he so often did in his writings, that philosophical enquiry needs to be conducted historically, an insistence that shaped Nietzsche's own turn towards the method of genealogy in his later works. The answer proposed is that in Nietzsche's view, some of our most important philosophical concepts (such as the concept of 'good') have undergone radical changes in meaning over the course of history, and yet, the past meanings of these concepts, rather than having been entirely overwritten by their present meanings, continue to have some residual semantic presence in them today. Consequently, our philosophical attempts to understand these concepts today necessarily require that we pay serious attention to their histories, which is why Nietzsche thought that our philosophical enquiries have to be conducted historically. This is the answer developed in this dissertation through an in-depth study of Nietzsche's theory of conceptual change over history, and an analysis of the practical consequences this theory of conceptual change might have for us today.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2013 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Chaudhri, Rahul |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Philosophy. |
| Primary advisor | Anderson, R. Lanier |
| Thesis advisor | Anderson, R. Lanier |
| Thesis advisor | Hills, David James, 1947- |
| Thesis advisor | Hussain, Nadeem J. Z |
| Advisor | Hills, David James, 1947- |
| Advisor | Hussain, Nadeem J. Z |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Rahul Chaudhri. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Philosophy. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2013. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2013 by Rahul Chaudhri
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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