Nietzsche
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The persistent myth that Williams was significantly influenced by Nietzsche
(Moving to front from yesterday–file link fixed) I usually like Jane O’Grady’s work, but this popular piece is quite misleading. There are some superficial similarities between Williams and Nietzsche, but the differences are far more profound, including in their completely different understanding of the Greeks. Williams’s critique of morality is also quite tepid by comparison…
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Nietzsche on Plato
From The Twilight of the Idols (“What I Owe to the Ancients,” section 2): I am a complete skeptic about Plato….In the end, my distrust of Plato goes deep: he represents such an aberration from all the basic instinct of the Hellene, is so moralistic, so pre-existently Christian–he already takes the concept “good” for the…
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Twitter redux
Since I changed blog platforms, I’ve been back on the Twitter/X platform to try to get the word out about the new URL for the blog. This has reminded me, alas, of my prior observations about Twitter, all of which remain true unfortunately. Interacting with the members of the Strauss cult in recent days brought…
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Most cited Anglophone philosophy books on Nietzsche according to Google Scholar
Only books with at least 600 citations are listed; citations are rounded to the nearest hundred, as before.
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10th annual meeting of the International Society for Nietzsche Studies: Bonn, September 2026
The new “call for papers” is here: submissions are due March 31, 2026. Our first meeting was in Bonn, so we are happy to return, now that ISNS has established itself as the premier forum for philosophically serious work on Nietzsche.
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“Bloodless Pedantry”
Philosopher Tim Crane on “analytic” philosophy: If analytic philosophers were to reflect in a more disinterested, less defensive way about their tradition, it could help them understand why philosophers of other traditions find it so obscure, and why those outside philosophy can find it so pointless. The truth is that the point of philosophical questions…
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“If God does not exist, then we are locked without hope in a world filled with gratuitous and unredeemed suffering”
I was astonished to learn this had been presented as an objection to atheism in this informative review of Professor Nagasawa’s recent book. How can truth be an objection to a view?
Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…