NietzschesGenealogyasEnlightenmentLectureOne：尼采的系谱学作为一enlightenmentlecture.pptVIP

Nietzsche’s Genealogy as EnlightenmentLecture One Dr. Peter Kail St. Peter’s College, Oxford Two Formidable Issues What is ‘Enlightenment’? What is the character of Nietzsche’s philosophy? The ‘Enlightenment’ The cliché of the ‘Age of Reason’ Paradigmatically the philosophe Kant and Enlightenment as humanity’s emergence from self-incurred immaturity which ‘is the inability to use one’s understanding without the guidance of others’. Supposed Key Features Unbounded optimism about reason’s reach The fixity and uniformity of universal human nature Anti-traditional religion Scientific conception of social structures and their improvement Individual freedom and rational relation to authority Scepticism about the ‘Enlightenment’ How many ‘Enlightenments’? And where? English, Scottish, German, French…. Reason, Scepticism, Passion Religion and the Enlightenment (Berkeley, Reid, Butler….) Enlightenment and liberation (The so-called ‘moderate’ and ‘radical’ Enlightenments) Scepticism about the ‘Enlightenment’ How many ‘Enlightenments’ and where? English, Scottish, German, French…. Reason, Scepticism, Passion Religion and the Enlightenment (Berkeley, Reid, Butler….) Enlightenment and liberation (The so-called ‘moderate’ and ‘radical’ Enlightenments) Nietzsche Favourable to the Enlightenment? 1st edition of HAH dedicated to Voltaire Nietzsche’s continued admiration for the French D 197 German Hostility to the Enlightenment The ressentiment of the French Revolution as anti-Enlightenment Christianity as an unwitting contributor to Enlightenment (GS 122) One Enlightenment Trope Optimism about empirical sciences and its application to traditional philosophical concerns by its application to the human creatures Methodological naturalism. Knowledge of humanity depends on methods continuous with the sciences Obvious exemplar. David Hume Nietzsche on Naturalism We must “translate humanity back into nature” [so as to] “gain control of