The Teleology of Kant: A New Reader's Edition
May 2024 · The Collected Works of Friedrich Nietzsche Book 8 · Marchen Press
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This short work is a collection of the unpublished notes on a planned dissertation on Kant's writings which Nietzsche started in 1868. He abandoned the project to work on Philology, but these notes were published by his estate in 1897, 1901 and in several other editions after that. "Die Teleologie seit Kant" is an analysis and criticism of Kant's rejection of the Naturalistic philosophers. At the end, he has a list of books still to read in order to finish the thesis, including Schopenhauer, Schelling, Maimon and Wundt. Some of these notes are original comments or thoughts he wanted to include in the dissertation, others are quotes he pulled from various works of Kant, and other scholarly analysis of Kant. He intended to compare and contrast Kant and Goethe's Panpsychism and Teleology, so he also analyses Goethe, particularly his natural science. He built out his most advanced thoughts on Teleology in his famous "Human, altogether to Human". He attempts to refute Kant's Teleological Cosmological arguments in his notes: "The elimination of teleology has a practical value. It is only a matter of rejecting the concept of a higher reason: then we are already satisfied. Appreciation of teleology in its value for the human world of ideas. Teleology, like optimism, is an aesthetic product.... the machine maintains itself, therefore it is expedient. We are not entitled to a judgment about "highest expediency". We can therefore at most infer a reason, but have no right to call it a higher or lower one." This modern translation from the original manuscript is designed to allow the armchair philosopher to engage deeply with Nietzsche's works. The language is modern and clean, with simplified sentence structures and diction to make Nietzsche's complex language and arguments as accessible as possible. This Reader's Edition also contains extra material that amplifies the manuscript with autobiographical, historical and linguistic context. The edition includes an Afterword by the Translator on the history, impact and intellectual legacy of Nietzsche in context of this work, an index of Philosophical concepts used by Nietzsche with a focus on Existentialism and Phenomenology, a complete chronological list of Nietzsche's entire body of works, and a detailed timeline of Nietzsche's life journey, including the personal relationships which greatly influenced his philosophy.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a watershed German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, musician (briefly) and philologist (the study of ancient manuscripts) whose work has had a profound impact on modern intellectual history. Known for his critiques of European morality and religion (particularly Protestantism), Nietzsche's ideas on the "will to power" and the "Übermensch" have influenced a wide range of philosophical, literary, and psychological thought including thinkers such as Martin Heidegger, Albert Camus, Michael Foucault and the entire Postmodern religion.
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