School of Humanities
Discipline
Course Title
Philosophy
Bachelor of Arts (Omnibus), CONNECT BAs
Module Coordinator
Module Title
Lecture times
Teaching Format
Brief outline of
content
Dr. Tsarina Doyle
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course students should be able to:
1. outline the historical and philosophical contexts informing
Nietzsche’s philosophical arguments
2. explain Nietzsche’s naturalism and his genealogical method
3. outline and critically assess Nietzsche’s critique of modern European
philosophy
4. outline and critically assess Nietzsche’s philosophical arguments with
regard to perspectivism, the will to power, eternal recurrence, the
Good European, religion, slave and master morality
Assessment Types
and Deadlines
Essay
Required Text
Core Text:
Keith Ansell Pearson and Duncan Large (eds), The Nietzsche Reader,
Blackwell, 2006.
Nietzsche and Philosophy
Semester 2
12 seminars of 2 hours duration
PI247
This course will introduce students to some of the central themes informing
the philosophical writings of Friedrich Nietzsche. Comprising a close reading
of his writings, it offers students an opportunity to explore such concepts as
perspectivism, the will to power, nihilism, the death of God, master and slave
morality, genealogy, the Übermench and eternal recurrence. Nietzsche’s
response to traditional philosophical problems of truth and knowledge and his
use of the language of falsification and illusion shall also be considered. All
students shall be expected to engage in class discussions.
Secondary Texts:
Burnham, Douglas, Reading Nietzsche: An Analysis of Beyond Good and Evil,
McGill-Queens’s University Press, 2007.
Clark, Maudemarie, Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy, Cambridge
University Press, 1990.
Hill, R. Kevin, Nietzsche: A Guide for the Perplexed, Continuum 2007.
Leiter, Brian, Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Nietzsche on Morality,
Routledge, 2002.
Ansell-Pearson, Keith (ed.), A Companion to Nietzsche, Blackwell, 2006.
Ansell-Pearson, Keith, An Introduction to Nietzsche as Political Philosopher,
Cambridge University Press, 1994.
May, Simon, Nietzsche’s Ethics and his War on ‘Morality’, Clarendon Press,
1999.
Richardson, John, Nietzsche’s System, Oxford University Press, 1996.
Schacht, Richard, Nietzsche, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983.
Solomon, Robert C., and Higgins, Kathleen M., Reading Nietzsche, Oxford
University Press, 1988.