Genealogy as ‘Enlightenment’ Reading for Lecture Three 18 September 2014 Peter Kail Oxford University. Bad Conscience etc Useful accounts are in Leiter’s Nietzsche on Morality, and May Nietzsche’s Ethics, Risse, M ‘The Second Treatise of the Genealogy of Morality’ European Journal of Philosophy 2001 is very valuable, as are Janaway Beyond Selfishness chapter 8 and Reginister, ‘The Genealogy of Guilt’ in May (ed.) Reading Nietzsche’s Genealogy. The Will to Power The will to power is seen either as a metaphysically charged notion or psychoexplanatory hypothesis. These readings depend on how much emphasis is put on Nachlass materials and the pseudo-book The Will to Power. For metaphysical readings, see Poellner, Nietzsche and Metaphysics Chapters 4 and 9, and John Richardson ‘Nietzsche’s Power Ontology’ in Richardson and Leiter. For discussions that focus on non-metaphysical readings, see Clark ‘Nietzsche’s Doctrines of the Will to Power’ in Richardson and Leiter, Leiter Nietzsche on Morality pp.138-141 and Simon May, Nietzsche’s Ethics, pp.13-18. Highly recommended are Ivan Soll, “Nietzsche on Cruelty, Asceticism and the failure of Hedonism”, in Schacht (ed.) Nietzsche, Genealogy and Morality, Reginster ‘Will to Power and the Ethics of Creativity’ in Leiter and Sinhababu Nietzsche and Morality, and Christopher Janaway Beyond Selfishness chapter 9. The Ascetic Ideals and the Priest There are some very useful accounts in Leiter, Nietzsche on Morality Chapter 8, and May Nietzsche’s War on Morality Chapter 5. Aaron Ridley’s Nietzsche’s Conscience interestingly discusses the priest’s role in moving the slave revolt from the ‘immanent’ to a ‘transcendental’ stage. Christopher Janaway’s Beyond Selfishness chapter 13 integrates a general discussion of the role of the priest with the will to truth and the ascetic ideal. The Will to Truth and Asceticism This is perhaps the most difficult aspect of asceticism, namely why the will to truth is connected with the ‘life-denial’ in asceticism. I have here tried my own interpretation based on GS 344. Different interpretations, in addition to the readings given above, Peter Poellner Nietzsche and Metaphysics (Oxford), pp.110ff and Maudmarie Clark Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy (Cambridge), chapter 6. peter.kail@spc.ox.ac.uk