Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: As early as in Schopenhauer as Educator , Nietzsche writes that mankind “must work continually at the production of individual great men—that and nothing else is its task,” and that mankind “ought to seek out and create the favourable conditions” under which “those great redemptive men can come into existence” ( UM , III, §6). Footnote 1 In this paper, I take it to be uncontroversial that increasingly into his philosophical career, Nietzsche believed human greatness to be an appropriately valuable goal, at least for certain types of people. Footnote 2 Where there is controversy however, regards (1) what type of value greatness has; (2) what the specific content of greatness is: what does the “highest splendour possible to the type man” ( GM , preface: §6) consist in? In this paper, I solely consider the controversy regarding (2).
Source: The Journal of Value Inquiry
Author: Patrick Hassan
Institution: University of Reading
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,190
OpenAlex ID: W2526244653