Part II, Paper 4 · European Philosophy from Kant
Nietzsche: Truth
Does Nietzsche advance a pragmatist account of truth?
Essay of no more than 2,500 words.
Primary sources
- Nietzsche, Friedrich 1872 [1999]. The Birth of Tragedy, trans. Ronald Speirs, ed. R. Geuss and R. Speirs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.“On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense,” pp. 139–153.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich 1886 [2002]. Beyond Good and Evil, trans. Rolf-Peter Horstmann and J. Norman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Particular focus on Part 1.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich 1887 [2007]. On the Genealogy of Morality, trans. Carol Diethe, ed. K. Ansell-Pearson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Essay 3, §12.
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- Gemes, Ken 1992. Nietzsche’s Critique of Truth. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 52(1): 47–65. DOI
- Leiter, Brian 2002. pp. 13–23 and 264–279 in Nietzsche on Morality. London: Routledge. DOI
- Leiter, Brian 1994. Perspectivism in Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals, pp. 334–357 in Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality: Essays on Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals, ed. Richard Schacht. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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