Spring 2000 Cyberseminar: Nietzsche and Objectivism

Introduction, Information, etc.

• Syllabus and Description
• Writing Notes, by William Thomas and Notes on Method, by David Kelley (From Fall 1999 Cyberseminar)

Index of Essays and Discussion

Part One: On Human Nature and Values
Genealogy of Morals: Preface and First Essay
Beyond Good and Evil: Part IV sections 68 and 158; all of Part IX

• Stephen Hicks' Part One Introductory Essay
  • Discussion of Part One Introductory Essay by Thomas Gramstad
• Jason Ticknor-Schwob's Part One Review Essay: "Master and Slave"
  • Comment by Eyal Mozes and Follow-up
  • Comment by Thomas Gramstad
• Diana Hsieh's Part One Review Essay: "Birds of Prey"
  • Comment by William Dale
  • Comment by Christopher Robinson
  • Discussion by Thomas Gramstad
• Extensive Discussion of "Does Nietzche Believe in Morality?"
• David Potts on the 2nd and 3rd Essays of On the Geneology of Morals

Part Two: On Metaphysics and Epistemology:
The Will to Power: Book Three, Part I, (sections 466-617); and section 1067
Genealogy of Morals: "Preface" section 2, Third Essay sections 12 and 25.
Beyond Good & Evil: sections 207 and 211
The Gay Science: section 354

• Stephen Hicks' Part Two Introductory Essay
• Shawn Klein's Part Two Review Essay "Nietzsche's Metaphysics and Epistemology"
  • Comment by Michelle Cohen
  • Comment by Jason Walker
• David Potts' "Epitome of The Will to Power Book 3 Part 1"
• Chris Sciabarra on Ayn Rand's Transcript

Part Three: On History and Culture
The Will to Power: "Preface," and Book I.
Beyond Good & Evil: "Part One: On the Prejudices of Philosophers"

• Stephen Hicks' Part Three Introductory Essay
  • Discussion of Part Three Introductory Essay by Michelle Cohen
• D.J. Glombowski's Part Three Review Essay "Nihilism and Naziism"
  • Comment by Eyal Mozes
• David Potts' Part Three Review Essay(s) "Nobility...", "Civilization...", and "Breeding"
  • Discussion of "Blonde Beasts" with Hicks, Hill, and Potts
• Michelle Cohen's Part Three Summary Essay "Nietzsche and the Jews" with follow-up discussion by Kevin Hill

Part Four: Nietzsche and Ayn Rand
Will to Power: sections 246 and 369
Twilight of the Idols: section 33
"The Challenge of Every Great Philosophy" (Excerpted in Walter Kaufmann's Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre)
Human, All-too-Human, "A Glance at the State"
Chris Sciabarra, "The Influence of Nietzsche in Russia," pp. 31-35 of Ayn Rand, The Russian Radical
Ronald Merrill's The Ideas of Ayn Rand: Chapter 3
Ayn Rand, pp. 90-96 of the 1936 edition of We the Living
Ayn Rand, First Philosophical Journal. Chapter 3 of Journals of Ayn Rand, ed. David Harriman.

• Stephen Hicks' Part Four Introductory Essay
  • Discussion of Part Four Introductory Essay by Eyal Mozes
  • Chris Matthew Sciabarra on Rand and the Russian "Silver Age."
• Eyal Mozes' Part Four Review Essay on Rand's Alleged Nietszcheanism
  • Discussion by Chris Matthew Sciabarra and Kevin Hill
  • Comment by William Thomas
  • Comment by Michelle Cohen
• David Potts on Rand and Nietzsche, including "Nietzsche's Best and Worst" with follow-up by Kevin Hill
• Michelle Cohen on "Nietzsche's influence on Jewish Writers"