Peter Poellner
Biographic Data
| ID | 461841 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Poellner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Poellner |
| SIGNATURE | POELLNER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Value in Modernity
This book identifies a historical paradigm in ethics that has been largely ignored in more recent philosophy. The author calls this paradigm existential modernism and discusses its central claims through detailed examination of the thought of four of its main exponents: Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Scheler, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Robert Musil. In the case of Nietzsche and Sartre, he offers novel interpretations, reconstructing lines of thought in thei…
Nietzsche’s Metaphysical Sketches
An international team of scholars offer a broad engagement with the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche, discussing the main topics of his philosophy, under the headings: values, epistemology and metaphysics, and will to power. Other sections discuss his life, his relations to other philosophers, and his individual works.
Aestheticist Ethics
This chapter seeks to clarify the normative grounds and some of the contents of Nietzsche's evaluative commitments. It is argued that attempts to ground these commitments in the psychology of the will to power are incomplete, since, on the plausible assumption that the will to power is a type of second-order desire, it generates insufficient constraints with respect to first-order evaluation. Nietzsche, however, is clearly committed to evaluative…
Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality
On the Genealogy of Morality is Nietzsche's most influential, provocative, and challenging work of ethics. In this volume of newly commissioned essays, fourteen leading philosophers offer fresh insights into many of the work's central questions: How did our dominant values originate and what functions do they really serve? What future does the concept of 'evil' have - and can it be revalued? What sorts of virtues and ideals does Nietzsche advocat…
Ressentiment and morality
It is widely acknowledged that there is an intimate connection between Nietzsche's ostensibly historical diagnosis of the vicissitudes of ressentiment in the second and third essays of On the Genealogy of Morality and his critique of contemporary European morality. There can be no question but that Nietzsche considers morality as we know it to have its roots, in some way, in the condition of ressentiment. The ressentiment subject's initial suffer…
Nietzschean Freedom
This chapter argues that Nietzsche's work contains a compatibilist theory of freedom. There are two distinct but complementary conceptions of freedom in Nietsche's later works: (i) freedom or autonomy as a ‘transcendental’ condition of personhood; and (ii) freedom as a substantive ideal (the ‘free spirit’). With respect to (i), it is argued that, for Nietzsche, formal conditions (such as a unified system of desires) are not sufficient for autonom…
Affect, Value, and Objectivity
In this essay I want to explore four propositions about the relation between values, affectivity, and objectivity, all of which can be found in Nietzsche’s thinking about the nature of value. At least two of them—(2) and (3)— are sometimes thought to be incompatible with each other. The propositions are: (1) Our fundamental mode of acquaintance with many values is through certain kinds of complex affective states, namely emotions. (2) Many values…
Nietzsche and Metaphysics
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Nietzsche and Metaphysics
Affect, Value, and Objectivity
In this essay I want to explore four propositions about the relation between values, affectivity, and objectivity, all of which can be found in Nietzsche’s thinking about the nature of value. At least two of them—(2) and (3)— are sometimes thought to be incompatible with each other. The propositions are: (1) Our fundamental mode of acquaintance with many values is through certain kinds of complex affective states, namely emotions. (2) Many values…
Nietzschean Freedom
This chapter argues that Nietzsche's work contains a compatibilist theory of freedom. There are two distinct but complementary conceptions of freedom in Nietsche's later works: (i) freedom or autonomy as a ‘transcendental’ condition of personhood; and (ii) freedom as a substantive ideal (the ‘free spirit’). With respect to (i), it is argued that, for Nietzsche, formal conditions (such as a unified system of desires) are not sufficient for autonom…
Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality
On the Genealogy of Morality is Nietzsche's most influential, provocative, and challenging work of ethics. In this volume of newly commissioned essays, fourteen leading philosophers offer fresh insights into many of the work's central questions: How did our dominant values originate and what functions do they really serve? What future does the concept of 'evil' have - and can it be revalued? What sorts of virtues and ideals does Nietzsche advocat…
Ressentiment and morality
It is widely acknowledged that there is an intimate connection between Nietzsche's ostensibly historical diagnosis of the vicissitudes of ressentiment in the second and third essays of On the Genealogy of Morality and his critique of contemporary European morality. There can be no question but that Nietzsche considers morality as we know it to have its roots, in some way, in the condition of ressentiment. The ressentiment subject's initial suffer…
Aestheticist Ethics
This chapter seeks to clarify the normative grounds and some of the contents of Nietzsche's evaluative commitments. It is argued that attempts to ground these commitments in the psychology of the will to power are incomplete, since, on the plausible assumption that the will to power is a type of second-order desire, it generates insufficient constraints with respect to first-order evaluation. Nietzsche, however, is clearly committed to evaluative…
Nietzsche’s Metaphysical Sketches
An international team of scholars offer a broad engagement with the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche, discussing the main topics of his philosophy, under the headings: values, epistemology and metaphysics, and will to power. Other sections discuss his life, his relations to other philosophers, and his individual works.
Value in Modernity
This book identifies a historical paradigm in ethics that has been largely ignored in more recent philosophy. The author calls this paradigm existential modernism and discusses its central claims through detailed examination of the thought of four of its main exponents: Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Scheler, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Robert Musil. In the case of Nietzsche and Sartre, he offers novel interpretations, reconstructing lines of thought in thei…
Epistemology (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel (7 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (6 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (6 works) · Value (mathematics) (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Metaphysics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)