Cruelty and you : the discipline of great suffering in Nietzsche's philosophy of agency

The concept of cruelty in Nietzsche’s thought does not in actuality speak to malice or violence, rather it refers to a disposition to self and world that we must adopt in order to most effectively organize our capacities of agency. Nietzsche locates our profound need to situate ourselves interpretat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Levesque, Marc
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/37742