Nietzsche as existentialist and as fatalist: The practical paradoxes of self-making

International Studies in Philosophy

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2002, Pages

  Solomon, Robert C ^a  

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References (10)

1. Brian Leiter, "The Paradox of Fatalism and Self-Creation in Nietzsche," in Christopher Janaway, ed. , Willing and Nothingness: Schopenhauer as Nietzsche's Educator (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), pp. 217-57.
2. George Eliot, Middlemarch (New York: Penguin, 1994), p. 424.
3. Immanuel Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, 3rd ed. , trans. James W. Ellington (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1993), pp. 49, 53, 53.
4. Dan Dennett ridicules fatalism as the "mystical and superstitious" thesis that "no agent can do anything about anything" (123), whose only virtue is "the power to create creepy effects in literature" (104), in Daniel Dennett, Elbow Room (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1984).
5. Mark Bernstein, Fatalism (Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1992).
6. Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Teleology," trans. Paul Swift, published by NANS as Nietzscheana #8 (2000).
7. The locus classicus here is Aristotle's famous example of the sea battle tomorrow in his Metaphysics. There the question becomes, If it is true that there will be a sea battle tomorrow, must it not already be the case that there will be a sea battle tomorrow? For an extended treatment of these concerns, first in Aristotle then in contemporary metaphysics, see Sarah Broadie, "Aristotle's Sea Battle," in Broadie, Passage and Possibility: A Study of Aristotle's Modal Concepts (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1982), and Mark Bernstein, Fatalism.
8. Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, trans. Hazel Barnes (New York: Philosophical Library, 1956), p. 619.
9. Jean-Paul Sartre, "The Itinerary of a Thought,"
10. reprinted in Between Existentialism and Marxism, trans. John Matthews (New York: Pantheon Books, 1974), pp. 34-35.