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Rehabilitating positive freedom : an exploration of the value and relevance of Nietzsche’s conception of freedom

Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2014.

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Other Authors: Schoeman, Marinus J.
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spelling oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/43244 Rehabilitating positive freedom : an exploration of the value and relevance of Nietzsche’s conception of freedom Schoeman, Marinus J. Stefan.smit@up.ac.za Smit, Stéfan Renier UCTD Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2014. This dissertation investigates the philosophical question of human freedom. Broadly speaking, ‘freedom’ is one of the most exhaustively treated questions in Western intellectual history, and also one of the most controversially contested. I focus on one particular and often neglected philosophical position: the peculiar positive freedom of Friedrich Nietzsche. This introductory chapter will show that philosophical arguments about the meaning and nature of human freedom have concrete implications for many significant elements of everyday human life. These implications, far from being merely the objects of academic curiosity, continue to shape the foundations of our contemporary socio-political context. It is my contention that Nietzsche’s ideas on freedom, which have been largely dismissed within the established historical debate, contain valuable resources for philosophical reflection on freedom and are especially relevant in our contemporary intellectual context of growing globalisation, valuepluralism, and scientific explanations of reality. lk2014 Philosophy MA Unrestricted 2015-01-19T12:13:16Z 2015-01-19T12:13:16Z 2014/12/12 2014 Dissertation Smit, SR 2014, Rehabilitating positive freedom : an exploration of the value and relevance of Nietzsche’s conception of freedom, MA Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/43244> M14/9/124 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/43244 en © 2014 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria
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Rehabilitating positive freedom : an exploration of the value and relevance of Nietzsche’s conception of freedom
title Rehabilitating positive freedom : an exploration of the value and relevance of Nietzsche’s conception of freedom
title_full Rehabilitating positive freedom : an exploration of the value and relevance of Nietzsche’s conception of freedom
title_fullStr Rehabilitating positive freedom : an exploration of the value and relevance of Nietzsche’s conception of freedom
title_full_unstemmed Rehabilitating positive freedom : an exploration of the value and relevance of Nietzsche’s conception of freedom
title_short Rehabilitating positive freedom : an exploration of the value and relevance of Nietzsche’s conception of freedom
title_sort rehabilitating positive freedom an exploration of the value and relevance of nietzsche s conception of freedom
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url http://hdl.handle.net/2263/43244