As the title suggests, I think I am nearing a completed draft of Chapter One. After meeting with Paul in Fremantle, we spoke briefly about how this chapter should be done... and we've concluded with the idea that Schopenhauer, while important, should only be granted a very brief mention. The arguments and connections made by Nuno Nabais in the paper The Individual and Individuality in Nietzsche suggests that this connection is an important one, however, it is uncertain of the level of influence Schopenhauer exactly had over Nietzsche regarding the ideas of individuality. While an intriguing argument, I will only introduce briefly the idea...
However, after a database search last night, I found a paper by Walter Sokel entitled On the Dionysian in Nietzsche, which seems to suggest the connection as well. So perhaps this idea is more prevalent than once thought, especially the idea of an all encompassing unity that provides comfort to the individual.
So... that is where I am right now. I like the idea, and I think it is a great introduction and starting point for the thesis. I should finish off Chapter One in a number of days! :)
While out in Fremantle, we went second hand book shopping. Paul wanted me to find some Nietzsche translations by Walter Kaufmann, and we were in luck! I purchased The Will to Power and The Birth of Tragedy (two major books I've been drawing upon). I have been relying on cheap $3 translation of the BoT for study/reading/throwing so it is nice to finalise my studies on the book with a Kaufmann translation.
haha. i meant to post this here. double post :P
ReplyDeletehi thar!. just browsing perth ppl blogs. came across ur 2 =). please be >= 24. otherwise i'll feel really shitty about myself.
so how is philosophy working out? do u get an extra 1 unit of understanding for the 10 units involved in reading the original texts... i'm happy with my 10 units from 1 unit of reading "introducing philosophy" and my dk brian magee book. lots of pictures =). jkjk. i'm sure it is a good investment. i'm just bitter i can't make it :P. well @tm maybe.
i have a walter kaufman zarathustra. but i start it. then leave it. then start it again. i've probably read the first few chapters 10 times now. but i'm like that with everything lately.
1 of my maths lecturers (http://school.maths.uwa.edu.au/~mike/ u should talk to him. he sits in this one place most of the time, smoking cigars and drinking diet coke lol) told me not to bother with frege... i must have been making excuses not to do the actual maths cause i was trying to get to the "foundations of mathematics"... do you do that? is that what you were doing with frege? deduction?... do you do mathematical logic?... i think i found the perfect book for myself alfred tarski. also berties principles of mathematics. but tarski prolly first... what i want to beable to do is understand mathematics like this: http://www.metamath.org/
blah blah. also. do you think your philosophy is destroying you lol. you should stick to biological & physical sciences. that's the way the world works. i hope u don't deviant from that :P. hard determinism ftw.
wouldn't mind chatting to u if u msn and don't find me too dumb :P.