Nietzsche

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This course surveys Nietzsche's thought, with samples from all his major works. Topics considered will include: Greek tragedy, philosophy, and their legacy for Western philosophy; the existence, endurance, and purpose of things in the world, as well as the world itself; human consciousness, rationality, and language; human individuality, selfhood, and self-knowledge; free-will and determinism; love, resentment, and other emotions; science and truth, religion and morality, meaning and nihilism; time and eternity; Jews and Germans, slaves and masters, war and democracy, women and marriage.