The morality of individuality: from Nietzsche to Oakeshott
CONTENTS
- Introductory comments
- Of universal truths
- Of state and society – the politics of faith
3a. The state as the new idol
3b. The state and its priests
3c. The state, its priests – their discourse
3d. The state and its own populace
3e. The hierarchy of commanding
3f. The state as Babel
3g. The market-place
3h. The populace
3i. The values of the market-place and its populace
3j. Thou-shalt
3k. The for and against of the masses
3l. From idolatry to uniformity
3m. The state as the death of peoples - Forms of state
4a. The politics of faith versus civil association
4b. Civil association as a form of state
4c. Civil association and the question of traditionality - Types of moralities
5a. The life versus the death of a people
5b. The rarity of a genuine people
5c. Of the creative peoples
5d. Rationalist ideology versus the morality of habit of behaviour
5e. Of moralities: the anti-individual versus the individual
5f. The individual as the latest creation
- The individual
6a. The state, and the loss of individuality
6b. The commencement of the necessary individual
6c. Existential self-determination
6d. The loneliest wilderness
6e. Denial of duty
6f. The individual as creator of his own values
6g. The game of creating
6h. The ego, the body, and the self
6i. Of the passions, and virtue
6j. Of virtue and everyday wisdom
6k. A virtue in common with none else
6l. The problem of naming one’s own virtue
6m. Silence, privacy, and the new language of being and becoming
6n. The disposition of indifference towards the populace
6o. The disposition of tolerance towards the many-too-many - Self-organization
7a. From mass ideology to individual disposition
7b. Loving yourself as the individualistic disposition
7c. Living the present as self-organization
7d. Redeeming the past as self-organization
7e. Creating the world in one’s likeness – the question of truth
7f. The over-standing indifference
7g. The conflict of virtues – pride as self-organization - Of being-in-the-world as an Overman in the history of western civilization
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