Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Dedication
- 1 Introduction: Hegelianism?
- Part One The Original Options: Kant Versus Hegel
- Part Two Critical Modernism
- Part Three Greeks, Germans, and Moderns
- Part Four Narrating Modernity
- Part Five Modernism and Nihilism
- 12 Truth and Lies in the Early Nietzsche
- 13 Nietzsche's Alleged Farewell: The PreModern, Modern, and Postmodern Nietzsche
- 14 Morality as Psychology, Psychology as Morality: Nietzsche, Eros, and Clumsy Lovers
- Part Six Heidegger's “Cuhnination”
- Part Seven Hegelianism
- Name Index
- Subject Index
14 - Morality as Psychology, Psychology as Morality: Nietzsche, Eros, and Clumsy Lovers
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Dedication
- 1 Introduction: Hegelianism?
- Part One The Original Options: Kant Versus Hegel
- Part Two Critical Modernism
- Part Three Greeks, Germans, and Moderns
- Part Four Narrating Modernity
- Part Five Modernism and Nihilism
- 12 Truth and Lies in the Early Nietzsche
- 13 Nietzsche's Alleged Farewell: The PreModern, Modern, and Postmodern Nietzsche
- 14 Morality as Psychology, Psychology as Morality: Nietzsche, Eros, and Clumsy Lovers
- Part Six Heidegger's “Cuhnination”
- Part Seven Hegelianism
- Name Index
- Subject Index
Summary
“Das Thun ist Alles”
JGB, p. 279Der Glaube “so und so ist es” zu verwandeln in den Willen “so und so soil es werden.”
WM, section 593In section 23 of Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche encourages us to “clench our teeth,” “open our eyes,” and “keep our hand firm on the helm.” We are to make a voyage that will entitle us to demand that “psychology be recognized again as the queen of the sciences, for whose service and preparation the other sciences exist. For psychology is now again the path to the fundamental problems.”
The claim for the priority of psychology leads in many directions. It leads first to the familiar view of Nietzsche as a deflationary critic, exposing “human all too human” origins, or the “low” origins of the “high.” This enterprise, if etiological, appears to be about real, if hidden, psychological motives; if hermeneutical, about real, if hidden, psychological meaning. Whether writing in the style of earlier French psychologists (as if Nietzsche is radicalizing Montaigne, Voltaire, LaRochefoucauld) or anticipating modern reductionist claims about religion or mores, Nietzsche clearly means to explain the motivations behind, and the meaning of, philosophical, religious, and moral phenomena, in non-philosophic, non-religious, and nonmoral terms. His summary label for such an account is “psychology,” and that suggests something that looks right at home in the “left Hegelian” or “post-Feuerbachean” or “pre-Freudian” side of things in the late ninteenth century, especially when the themes are religious or moral.
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- Idealism as ModernismHegelian Variations, pp. 351 - 372Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997
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