Nietzschean Autonomy and the Meaning of the "Sovereign Individual".
This paper has two goals, one narrower and one wider. The limited goal is to address an interpretive dispute over the Genealogy's description of the "sovereign individual," a character type whose features bear on Nietzsche's distinctive conceptions of conscience, promising, and what it is to take re...
| Published in: | Philosophy & Phenomenological Research Vol. 105; no. 2; pp. 362 - 385 |
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Sep2022
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