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Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition
Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition
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The impact of Nietzsche's engagement with the Greek skeptics has never before been systematically explored in a book-length work - an inattention that belies the interpretive weight scholars otherwise attribute to his early career as a professor of classical philology and to the fascination
with Greek literature and culture that persisted throughout his productive academic life. Jessica N. Berry fills this gap in the literature on Nietzsche by demonstrating how an understanding of the Pyrrhonian skeptical tradition illuminates Nietzsche's own reflections on truth, knowledge, and
ultimately, the nature and value of philosophic inquiry. This entirely new reading of Nietzsche's epistemological and ethical views promises to make clear and render coherent his provocative but often opaque remarks on the topics of truth and knowledge and to grant us further insight into his
ethics-since the Greek skeptics, like Nietzsche, take up the position they do as a means of promoting well-being and psychological health. In addition, it allows us to recover a portrait of Nietzsche as a philologist and philosophical psychologist that has been too often obscured by commentaries on
his thought. The book addresses a number of central issues in Nietzsche's philosophy, including perspectivism and his conception of truth. The idea that his views in these areas owe much to the ancient Pyrrhonists casts them in an important new light, and is well supported by the texts. A lot of people from a
lot of different areas in philosophy will have good reason to take notice. - Richard Bett, Johns Hopkins University
Author: Jessica N. Berry
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 01/01/2017
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780190670047
with Greek literature and culture that persisted throughout his productive academic life. Jessica N. Berry fills this gap in the literature on Nietzsche by demonstrating how an understanding of the Pyrrhonian skeptical tradition illuminates Nietzsche's own reflections on truth, knowledge, and
ultimately, the nature and value of philosophic inquiry. This entirely new reading of Nietzsche's epistemological and ethical views promises to make clear and render coherent his provocative but often opaque remarks on the topics of truth and knowledge and to grant us further insight into his
ethics-since the Greek skeptics, like Nietzsche, take up the position they do as a means of promoting well-being and psychological health. In addition, it allows us to recover a portrait of Nietzsche as a philologist and philosophical psychologist that has been too often obscured by commentaries on
his thought. The book addresses a number of central issues in Nietzsche's philosophy, including perspectivism and his conception of truth. The idea that his views in these areas owe much to the ancient Pyrrhonists casts them in an important new light, and is well supported by the texts. A lot of people from a
lot of different areas in philosophy will have good reason to take notice. - Richard Bett, Johns Hopkins University
Author: Jessica N. Berry
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 01/01/2017
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780190670047
About the Author
Jessica N. Berry is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Georgia State University
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