Perfecting nature : Friedrich Nietzsche's ideal and politics of cultivation Cugola, Adriano Dino 1990, Perfecting nature : Friedrich Nietzsche's ideal and politics of cultivation, Ph.D. thesis, School of Humanities, Deakin University. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads cugola-perfectingnature-1990.pdf Connect to Thesis application/pdf 1.89MB 3904 Title Perfecting nature : Friedrich Nietzsche's ideal and politics of cultivation Author Cugola, Adriano Dino Institution Deakin University School School of Humanities Faculty Faculty of Arts and Education Degree name Ph.D. Thesis advisor Charlesworth, Max Date submitted 1990 Summary What I have called the Ideal of Cultivation is a fundamental ethical principle of civilisation, originated by aristocratic warriors in Greek antiquity who held that the true purpose of humanity is to perfect nature It was then professed that individuals and even entire peoples could consciously develop and improve themselves in a way that was thought to obey the original lawful impulses of nature, a process which was likened to those of agriculture and animal husbandry. Subsequently the cognate idea of a politics of cultivation arose which deemed that society should be organised specifically to produce more virtuous or perfect human types. Given their fundamental association with Hellenism both ideas have been revisited constantly in the intellectual history of the west, and most notably during the great secular periods, the Renaissance and Enlightenment when active attempts were made to retrieve the ideals of antiquity. Both ideas were particularly pervasive in the German enlightenment, the Aufklärung, and were assimilated by the succeeding Romantic generation. In nineteenth century Germany, when interest in these ideas was quickly waning, the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche acquired an unswerving attachment to them and made the service of them his life's work. The intention of this essay is to trace methodically the appearance of the Ideal of Cultivation in Nietzsche's philosophy and politics, and to outline his responses to a world which was abandoning the principles in which he deeply believed. This essay should be regarded as a case study in the long history of a fundamental ethical idea rather than one about the philosopher Nietzsche. Language eng Field of Research 220209 History of Ideas 160609 Political Theory and Political Philosophy 220207 History and Philosophy of the Humanities Socio Economic Objective 970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society Dewey Decimal Classification 171.3 Cug/Pna Copyright notice ©The Author. All Rights Reserved Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30032069 Document type: Thesis Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Social and International Studies Higher degree theses (full text) Open Access Collection   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 23 Dec 2010, 10:23:02 EST Tue, 04 Jan 2011, 15:11:51 EST Thu, 20 Jan 2011, 08:23:43 EST Thu, 20 Jan 2011, 08:42:28 EST Thu, 20 Jan 2011, 08:43:06 EST Thu, 09 Mar 2017, 06:49:45 EST Thu, 09 Mar 2017, 08:32:14 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 3652 Abstract Views, 3904 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 23 Dec 2010, 10:22:51 EST by Guest Thesis Author

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