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Part of the series The complete works of Friedrich Nietzsche v. 11;Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900. Works. English. 1995 v. 11.
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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-462) and index.

Subjects:

• Philosophy.
• Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.
• Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 — Amis et relations.
• Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860.

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Part of the series The complete works of Friedrich Nietzsche volume 8;Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900. Works. English. 1995 v. 8.
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• Translated from Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, ed. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, in 15 vols. This book corresponds to Vol. 5 –Title page verso.
• Translation of: Jenseits von Gut und Böse Zur Genealogie der Moral. München : Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag Berlin New York : De Gruyter, 1980.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Beyond good and evil — On the genealogy of morality.

Subjects:

• Ethics.
• (fast)Ethics.

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Part of the series The complete works of Friedrich Nietzsche v. 5;Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900. Works. English. 1995 v. 5.
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• Translated from Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, ed. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, in 15 vols. This book corresponds to Vol. 3.
• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Subjects:

• Ethics.

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Part of the series The complete works of Friedrich Nietzsche v. 4;Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900. Works. English. 1997 v. 4.
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• Translated from Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, ed. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, in 15 vols. This book corresponds to Vol. 2, pp. 364-715.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects:

• Human beings.
• Philosophy, German — 19th century.
• 1800 – 1899 fast

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Part of the series The Complete works of Friedrich Nietzsche v. 2;Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900. Works. English. 1995 v. 2.
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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• David Strauss, the confessor and the writer — On the utility and liability of history for life — Schopenhauer as educator — Richard Wagner in Bayreuth.

Subjects:

• Strauss, David Friedrich, 1808-1874.
• History — Study and teaching.
• Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860.
• Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.
• Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860 fast (OCoLC)fst00051863
• Strauss, David Friedrich, 1808-1874 fast (OCoLC)fst00003235
• Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 fast (OCoLC)fst00040723

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Part of the series The complete works of Friedrich Nietzsche v. 3;Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900. Works. English. 1997 v. 3.
Notes:

• Based on the edition by Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-359) and index.
• Of the first and last things — On the history of the moral sensations — The religious life — From the souls of artists and writers — Signs of higher and lower culture — In relations with others — Woman and child — A glance at the state — By oneself alone — Among friends : an epilogue.

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• Human beings.
• Philosophy, German — 19th century.
• 1800 – 1899 fast

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Prologue: the conscience of a physicist — The Sputnik opportunity — The moral case for a test ban — The science of non-nuclear war — Into the ethical hot pot — Disaster and disillusionment in Vietnam — Institutional reckonings at MIT — The New Left assault on neutrality — Collapse of the Sputnik order — A united front against Star Wars — Epilogue: science and ethics after the Cold War.
• Scientists at War examines the ethical debates that severely tested the American scientific community during the Cold War. Sarah Bridger highlights the contributions of scientists to military technologies and strategic policymaking, from the dawning atomic age in the 1940s through the Strategic Defense Initiative ( Star Wars ) in the 1980s, which sparked a cross-generational opposition among scientists. The Manhattan Project in the early 1940s and the crisis provoked by the launch of Sputnik in 1957 greatly enhanced the political clout of American scientists. Yet many who took up government roles felt a duty to advocate arms control. Bridger investigates the internal debate over nuclear weapons policy during the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, when scientific advisors did not restrict themselves to technical assessments but made an impassioned moral case for a nuclear test ban. The relationship between government and science began to fray further during the Vietnam War, as younger scientists inside and outside of government questioned the morality of using chemical defoliants, napalm, and other non-nuclear weapons. With campuses erupting in protest over classified weapons research conducted in university labs, many elder statesmen of science, who once believed they could wield influence from within, became alienated. The result was a coalition that opposed Star Wars during the 1980s–and a diminished role for scientists as counselors to future presidents.–From publisher description.

Subjects:

• Science — Social aspects.
• Science — Moral and ethical aspects.
• Military weapons — Technological innovations — Moral and ethical aspects.
• Military research — United States — History — 20th century.
• Military research — Moral and ethical aspects — United States.
• Nuclear weapons — Moral and ethical aspects — United States.
• Cold War.

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. [136]-149) and index.
• Neil Levy presents an original theory of freedom and responsibility. Cognitive neuroscience and psychology provide a great deal of evidence that our actions are often shaped by information of which we are not conscious some psychologists have concluded that we are actually conscious of very few of the facts we respond to. But most people seem to assume that we need to be conscious of the facts we respond to in order to be responsible for what we do. Some thinkers have argued that this naive assumption is wrong, and we need not be conscious of these facts to be responsible, while others think it is correct and therefore we are never responsible. Levy argues that both views are wrong. He sets out and defends a particular account of consciousness-the global workspace view-and argues this account entails that consciousness plays an especially important role in action. We exercise sufficient control over the moral significance of our acts to be responsible for them only when we are conscious of the facts that give to our actions their moral character. Further, our actions are expressive of who we are as moral agents only when we are conscious of these same facts. There are therefore good reasons to think that the naive assumption, that consciousness is needed for moral responsibility, is in fact true. Levy suggests that this entails that people are responsible less often than we might have thought, but the consciousness condition does not entail that we are never morally responsible. — Back cover.
• Does consciousness matter? — The consciousness thesis — The global workspace — What does consciousness do? — Consciousness and the real self — Consciousness and control.

Subjects:

• Consciousness.
• Responsibility.
• Bewusstsein. (DE-588)4006349-5 gnd
• Verantwortung. (DE-588)4062547-3 gnd
• Consciousness. fast (OCoLC)fst00875441
• Responsibility. fast (OCoLC)fst01095857

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-211) and index.
• The historical background / John Campbell — A straightforward solution to Berkeley’s puzzle / John Campbell — Experiencing objects as mind-independent / John Campbell — The role of sensory experience in propositional knowledge / John Campbell — Berkeley’s puzzle / Quassim Cassam — Experientialism / Quassim Cassam — The relational view of experience / Quassim Cassam — Representationalism / Quassim Cassam — Campbell’s epilogue — Cassam’s epilogue.
• Sensory experience seems to be the basis of our knowledge and conception of mind-independent things. The puzzle is to understand how that can be: even if the things we experience (apples, tables, trees etc), are mind-independent how does our sensory experience of them enable us to conceive of them as mind-independent? George Berkeley thought that sensory experience can only provide us with the conception of mind-dependent things, things which cannot exist when they aren’t being perceived. It’s easy to dismiss Berkeley’s conclusion but harder to see how to avoid it. In this book, John Campbell and Quassim Cassam propose very different solutions to Berkeley’s Puzzle. For Campbell, sensory experience can be the basis of our knowledge of mind-independent things because it is a relation, more primitive than thought, between the perceiver and high-level objects and properties in the mind-independent world. Cassam opposes this ‘relationalist’ solution to the Puzzle and defends a ‘representationalist’ solution: sensory experience can give us the conception of mind-independent things because it represents its objects as mind-independent, but does so without presupposing concepts of mind-independent things. This book is written in the form of a debate between two rival approaches to understanding the relationship between concepts and sensory experience. Although Berkeley’s Puzzle frames the debate, the questions addressed by Campbell and Cassam aren’t just of historical interest. They are among the most fundamental questions in philosophy.

Subjects:

• Berkeley, George, 1685-1753.
• Experience.
• Perception (Philosophy)
• Berkeley, George, 1685-1753. (DE-588)118509616 gnd

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Part of the series Routledge philosophers;Routledge philosophers.
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• John Dewey (1859-1952) was the dominant voice in American philosophy through the World Wars, the Great Depression, and the nascent years of the Cold War. With a professional career spanning three generations and a profile that no public intellectual has operated on in the U.S. since, Dewey’s biographer Robert Westbrook accurately describes him as the most important philosopher in modern American history — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• 1. Life and Works — 2. Metaphysics Reconstructed — 3. Epistemology Reconstructed — 4. Ethics Reconstructed — 5. Social-Political and Educational Philosophy Reconstructed — 6. Aesthetics and Technology Reconstructed — 7. Religious Philosophy Reconstructed — 8. Influence and Legacy.

Subjects:

• Dewey, John, 1859-1952.

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