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This book contains the first English translations of The Origin of the Moral Sensations and Psychological Observations, the two most important works by the German philosopher Paul Rée. These essays present Rée's moral philosophy, which influenced the ideas of his close friend Friedrich Nietzsche considerably.
Nietzsche scholars have often incorrectly attributed to him arguments and ideas that are Rée's and have failed to detect responses to Rée's works in Nietzsche's writings. Rée's thinking combined two strands: a pessimistic conception of human nature, presented in the French moralists' aphoristic style that would become a mainstay of Nietzsche's own writings, and a theory of morality derived from Darwin's theory of natural selection. Rée's moral Darwinism was a central factor prompting Nietzsche to write On the Genealogy of Morals and the groundwork for much of today's "evolutionary ethics."
In an illuminating critical introduction, Robin Small examines Rée's life and work, locating his application of evolutionary concepts to morality within a broader history of Darwinism while exploring Rée's theoretical and personal relationship with Nietzsche. In placing Nietzsche in his intellectual and social context, Small profoundly challenges the myth of Nietzsche as a solitary thinker.
| Cover Title Page Contents Acknowledgments Translator's Introduction Part 1: Psychological Observations Contents On Books and Authors On Human Actions and Their Motives On Women, Love, and Marriage Mixed Thoughts On Religious Things On Happiness and Unhappiness Essay on Vanity Part 2: The Origin of the Moral Sensations part 2 The Origin of the Moral Sensations Contents Preface Introduction Chapter 1: The Origin of the Concepts"Good" and "Evil" Chapter 2: The Origin of Conscience Chapter 3: Responsibility and Freedom of the Will Chapter 4: The Origin of Punishment and theFeeling of Justice: On Deterrence andRetribution Chapter 5: The Origin of Vanity* Chapter 6: Moral Progress Chapter 7: The Relation of Goodness to Happiness Review and Conclusion Bibliography Index
Nietzsche scholars have often incorrectly attributed to him arguments and ideas that are Rée's and have failed to detect responses to Rée's works in Nietzsche's writings. Rée's thinking combined two strands: a pessimistic conception of human nature, presented in the French moralists' aphoristic style that would become a mainstay of Nietzsche's own writings, and a theory of morality derived from Darwin's theory of natural selection. Rée's moral Darwinism was a central factor prompting Nietzsche to write On the Genealogy of Morals and the groundwork for much of today's "evolutionary ethics."
In an illuminating critical introduction, Robin Small examines Rée's life and work, locating his application of evolutionary concepts to morality within a broader history of Darwinism while exploring Rée's theoretical and personal relationship with Nietzsche. In placing Nietzsche in his intellectual and social context, Small profoundly challenges the myth of Nietzsche as a solitary thinker.
| Cover Title Page Contents Acknowledgments Translator's Introduction Part 1: Psychological Observations Contents On Books and Authors On Human Actions and Their Motives On Women, Love, and Marriage Mixed Thoughts On Religious Things On Happiness and Unhappiness Essay on Vanity Part 2: The Origin of the Moral Sensations part 2 The Origin of the Moral Sensations Contents Preface Introduction Chapter 1: The Origin of the Concepts"Good" and "Evil" Chapter 2: The Origin of Conscience Chapter 3: Responsibility and Freedom of the Will Chapter 4: The Origin of Punishment and theFeeling of Justice: On Deterrence andRetribution Chapter 5: The Origin of Vanity* Chapter 6: Moral Progress Chapter 7: The Relation of Goodness to Happiness Review and Conclusion Bibliography Index
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