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Mi 21. September 2016

18:00 Vortrag
Schiller-Museum, Vortragsraum

The Pursuit of Truth in »The Gay Science«

Alexander Nehamas. Friedrich Nietzsche on Truth and Human Action

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Can any human belief, view, or theory ever be true? For several years, American scholars have argued that Friedrich Nietzsche thought that this was impossible – that he accepted what has come to be known as »The Falsification Thesis.« The first lecture will draw upon »The Gay Science« and other works of Friedrich Nietzsche to suggest that he never accepted such a view (which would make nonsense, for example of his own attacks on Christian morality or his assertion of the eternal recurrence). Instead, in »The Gay Science« and thereafter, Nietzsche claimed that both true and false beliefs are necessary for the survival of our species, and insofar as they are necessary, they are both equally valuable. But that makes Nietzsche wonder why, in view of that last fact, we have convinced ourselves that truth, and only truth, is absolutely valuable?

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alexander nehamas

(Greek: Αλέξανδρος Νεχαμάς; born 22 March 1946) is Professor of Philosophy and Edmund N. Carpenter, II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1990, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He works on Greek philosophy, aesthetics, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, and literary theory.

Biography

Nehamas was born in Athens, Greece in 1946. In 1964, he enrolled to Swarthmore College. He graduated in 1967 and completed his doctorate on Predication in Plato's Phaedo under the direction of Gregory Vlastos at Princeton in 1971. He taught at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Pennsylvania before joining the Princeton faculty in 1990.[1]

Philosophy

His early work was on Platonic metaphysics and aesthetics as well as the philosophy of Socrates, but he gained a wider audience with his 1985 book Nietzsche: Life as Literature (Harvard University Press), in which he argued that Nietzsche thought of life and the world on the model of a literary text.[2] Nehamas has said, "The virtues of life are comparable to the virtues of good writing—style, connectedness, grace, elegance—and also, we must not forget, sometimes getting it right."[3] More recently, he has become well known for his view that philosophy should provide a form of life, as well as for his endorsement of the artistic value of television. This view also becomes evident in his book Only a Promise of Happiness. The title itself is later in this work used as one definition of beauty with reference to Stendhal. In that sense, beauty can be found in all media; as Nehamas claims in the same work: "Aesthetic features are everywhere, but that has nothing to do with where the arts can be found. Works of art can be beautiful because everything can be beautiful, but that doesn't mean that anything can be a work of art."[4]

In 2016, Nehamas published a book, On Friendship, based on his 2008 Gifford Lectures.[5] In it, he argues, contra Aristotle, that friendship is an aesthetic, but not always moral, good. And—like in his earlier work, Only a Promise of Happiness—he compares friends to artworks. “Like metaphors and works of art, the people who matter to us are all, so far as we are concerned, inexhaustible. They always remain a step beyond the furthest point our knowledge of them has reached—though only if, and as long as, they still matter to us.”[6]

Selected works

• Nietzsche: Life as Literature, Cambridge: Harvard University Press (1985)
• Symposium (translation, with Paul Woodruff) (1989)
• The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault (1998)
• Virtues of Authenticity: Essays on Plato and Socrates (1999)
• The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault: University of California Press (2000)
• Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art (2007)
• On Friendship (2016)
  
  

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Nehamas