Nadeem J Z Hussain
Biographic Data
| ID | 5967243 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nadeem J Z Hussain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nadeem J Z |
| FAMILY NAME | Hussain |
| SIGNATURE | HUSSAIN N J Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Practical Reasoning and Linking Beliefs
Nietzsche’s Metaethical Stance
This article discusses how a wide range of apparently conflicting metaethical theories have been ascribed to Nietzsche. It reviews the major kinds of contemporary metaethical theories and the initial textual evidence for ascribing some version of each kind to Nietzsche. It then considers the objections to such ascriptions as well as arguments in favor of claims of the relative plausibility of ascribing one metaethical interpretation to Nietzsche …
Metaethics and Nihilism in Reginster's The Affirmation of Life
Bernard Reginster, in his book The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism, takes up the challenge of figuring out what Nietzsche might mean by nihilism and the revaluation of values. He argues that there is an alternative, normative subjectivist interpretation of Nietzsche's views on nihilism and revaluation that makes as much sense as—indeed, he often clearly leans toward thinking that it makes more sense than—a fictionalist readi…
Honest Illusion
There is a widespread, popular view — and one I will basically endorse— that Nietzsche is, in one sense of the word, a nihilist. As Arthur Danto put it some time ago, according to Nietzsche, ‘there is nothing in [the world] which might sensibly be supposed to have value.’ As interpreters of Nietzsche, though, we cannot simply stop here. Nietzsche’shigher men, Ü bermenschen, ‘genuine philosophers’, free spirits— the types Nietzschewants to bring f…
Nietzsche's Positivism
One strong strain in contemporary Anglo-American secondary literature on Nietzsche would like to take his favourable comments about science, scientific methodology, the results of particular sciences, the role of scientists, and the senses as grounds for interpreting him as similar in many ways to contemporary
Nietzsche and the Transcendental Tradition
Book Review| April 01 2004 Nietzsche and the Transcendental Tradition Michael Steven Green, Nietzsche and the Transcendental Tradition. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Nadeem J. Z. Hussain Nadeem J. Z. Hussain Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (2): 275–278. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-113-2-275 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo…
Metaethics and Nihilism in Reginster's The Affirmation of Life
Bernard Reginster, in his book The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism, takes up the challenge of figuring out what Nietzsche might mean by nihilism and the revaluation of values. He argues that there is an alternative, normative subjectivist interpretation of Nietzsche's views on nihilism and revaluation that makes as much sense as—indeed, he often clearly leans toward thinking that it makes more sense than—a fictionalist readi…
Nietzsche's Positivism
One strong strain in contemporary Anglo-American secondary literature on Nietzsche would like to take his favourable comments about science, scientific methodology, the results of particular sciences, the role of scientists, and the senses as grounds for interpreting him as similar in many ways to contemporary
Nietzsche and the Transcendental Tradition
Book Review| April 01 2004 Nietzsche and the Transcendental Tradition Michael Steven Green, Nietzsche and the Transcendental Tradition. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Nadeem J. Z. Hussain Nadeem J. Z. Hussain Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (2): 275–278. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-113-2-275 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo…
Honest Illusion
There is a widespread, popular view — and one I will basically endorse— that Nietzsche is, in one sense of the word, a nihilist. As Arthur Danto put it some time ago, according to Nietzsche, ‘there is nothing in [the world] which might sensibly be supposed to have value.’ As interpreters of Nietzsche, though, we cannot simply stop here. Nietzsche’shigher men, Ü bermenschen, ‘genuine philosophers’, free spirits— the types Nietzschewants to bring f…
Metaethics and Nihilism in Reginster's The Affirmation of Life
Bernard Reginster, in his book The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism, takes up the challenge of figuring out what Nietzsche might mean by nihilism and the revaluation of values. He argues that there is an alternative, normative subjectivist interpretation of Nietzsche's views on nihilism and revaluation that makes as much sense as—indeed, he often clearly leans toward thinking that it makes more sense than—a fictionalist readi…
Nietzsche’s Metaethical Stance
This article discusses how a wide range of apparently conflicting metaethical theories have been ascribed to Nietzsche. It reviews the major kinds of contemporary metaethical theories and the initial textual evidence for ascribing some version of each kind to Nietzsche. It then considers the objections to such ascriptions as well as arguments in favor of claims of the relative plausibility of ascribing one metaethical interpretation to Nietzsche …
Practical Reasoning and Linking Beliefs
Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel (5 works) · Citation (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Library science (2 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)