Lewis Fallis
Biographic Data
| ID | 1170929 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lewis Fallis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lewis |
| FAMILY NAME | Fallis |
| SIGNATURE | FALLIS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1827-9663 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Nietzsche’s New Faith
In this article, I argue that Nietzsche ultimately arrived at the view that it was essential to use religious myth to wean people off prior myths, so as to render more likely a shift toward a new aristocracy. Nietzsche’s new myths are in his view closer approximations of scientific and philosophic truth than the old myths, and by their nature direct people beyond themselves toward the full truth. Nietzsche created a self-imploding religion, a rel…
Six Portraits of Political Ambition in Xenophon'sMemorabilia
In this article I claim that the Greek philosopher Xenophon, in the third book of hisMemorabilia, catalogues six-and perhapsthesix-essential and enduring forms of human ambition. Most treatments of ambition depict the phenomenon as monolithic; or, at best, as dichotomous. That is, ambition is understood as a single trait or passion shared by all ambitious people, its manifestations differing only according to circumstance; or, alternatively, as a…
Six Portraits of Political Ambition in Xenophon'sMemorabilia
In this article I claim that the Greek philosopher Xenophon, in the third book of hisMemorabilia, catalogues six-and perhapsthesix-essential and enduring forms of human ambition. Most treatments of ambition depict the phenomenon as monolithic; or, at best, as dichotomous. That is, ambition is understood as a single trait or passion shared by all ambitious people, its manifestations differing only according to circumstance; or, alternatively, as a…
Six Portraits of Political Ambition in Xenophon'sMemorabilia
In this article I claim that the Greek philosopher Xenophon, in the third book of hisMemorabilia, catalogues six-and perhapsthesix-essential and enduring forms of human ambition. Most treatments of ambition depict the phenomenon as monolithic; or, at best, as dichotomous. That is, ambition is understood as a single trait or passion shared by all ambitious people, its manifestations differing only according to circumstance; or, alternatively, as a…
Nietzsche’s New Faith
In this article, I argue that Nietzsche ultimately arrived at the view that it was essential to use religious myth to wean people off prior myths, so as to render more likely a shift toward a new aristocracy. Nietzsche’s new myths are in his view closer approximations of scientific and philosophic truth than the old myths, and by their nature direct people beyond themselves toward the full truth. Nietzsche created a self-imploding religion, a rel…
Politics (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Criticism (1 work) · Dialectic (1 work) · Education, Literature, Philosophy Research (1 work) · Enlightenment (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Law (1 work)