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Nietzsche on Evolution and Progress
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Berlin [u.a.]: de Gruyter
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- Title:
- Nietzsche-Studien
- Publication:
-
Berlin [u.a.]: de Gruyter
- Note:
- Gesehen am 27.08.2021
- C!URL-Ä(27-01-12)
- Scope:
- Online-Ressource
- ISSN:
- 1613-0790
- ZDB-ID:
-
2049671-0
- VÖBB-Katalog:
- 15136767
- Keywords:
- Nietzsche, Friedrich ; Nietzsche, Friedrich ; Zeitschrift ; Online-Ressource ; Zeitschrift ; Zeitschrift ; Online-Publikation
- Classification:
- Philosophie
- Collection:
- Philosophie
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- Rights reserved
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- Eingeschränkter Zugang mit Nutzungsbeschränkungen
Article
- Title:
- Nietzsche on Evolution and Progress
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Berlin [u.a.]: de Gruyter, 2024
- Language:
- English
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- Abstract: The thesis that humanity progresses in a lawlike manner from inferior states (of wellbeing, cognitive skills, culture, etc.) to superior ones dominated eighteenth- and nineteenth- century thought, including authors otherwise as diverse as Kant and Ernst Haeckel. Positioning himself against this philosophically and scientifically popular view, Nietzsche suggests that humanity is in a prolonged state of decline. I argue that Nietzsche’s rejection of the thesis that progress is inevitable is a product of his acceptance of Lamarck’s use-and-disuse theory of evolution and his belief that society selects for traits beneficial to society and negatively selects for traits that promote individual flourishing. This explains Nietzsche’s emphasis on self-development as cultivating traits that Nietzsche views as valuable and that would, by Lamarck’s theory of evolution, become heritable and so help steer our evolutionary trajectory, correcting our decline.
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- Online-Ressource
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- Open Access
- Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet
- Keywords:
- Evolution ; Development ; Progress ; Lamarck ; Darwin
- Classification:
- Philosophie
- Sonstiges
- Collection:
- Philosophie
- Sonstiges
- Copyright:
- CC BY
- Accessibility:
- Free Access
- Title:
- Nietzsche on Evolution and Progress
- Publication:
-
Berlin [u.a.]: de Gruyter, 2024
- Language:
- English
- Information:
- Abstract: The thesis that humanity progresses in a lawlike manner from inferior states (of wellbeing, cognitive skills, culture, etc.) to superior ones dominated eighteenth- and nineteenth- century thought, including authors otherwise as diverse as Kant and Ernst Haeckel. Positioning himself against this philosophically and scientifically popular view, Nietzsche suggests that humanity is in a prolonged state of decline. I argue that Nietzsche’s rejection of the thesis that progress is inevitable is a product of his acceptance of Lamarck’s use-and-disuse theory of evolution and his belief that society selects for traits beneficial to society and negatively selects for traits that promote individual flourishing. This explains Nietzsche’s emphasis on self-development as cultivating traits that Nietzsche views as valuable and that would, by Lamarck’s theory of evolution, become heritable and so help steer our evolutionary trajectory, correcting our decline.
- Scope:
- Online-Ressource
- Note:
- Open Access
- Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet
- Keywords:
- Evolution ; Development ; Progress ; Lamarck ; Darwin
- Classification:
- Philosophie
- Sonstiges
- Collection:
- Philosophie
- Sonstiges
- Copyright:
- CC BY
- Accessibility:
- Free Access
