The field of Disability Studies (DS) generally avoids addressing the problem of suffering and disability due to the long history of harmful stereotyping of disability as being a bad state of existence. When suffering is addressed, it tends to be conceptualized and criticized as …
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The first argument of my work exposes what Nietzsche means by the term “dogma” when he claims that much of the Western tradition has engaged in the “dogmatic error.” To expose Nietzsche’s use of the concept, I look to Section V, “How the ‘Real World’ at Last Became a Myth,” from…
Does Nietzsche’s inquiry into the question of truth take him beyond the sense of truth as correctness found in Platonism toward a more Greek understanding of truth that brings concealment into an unsettling prominence within truth? I explore in this thesis a possible double read…
This is a study of the philosophy of religion of Walter Kaufmann, specifically how he found his unique philosophical voice during the first decade of his career. It begins with Kaufmann’s work as a translator and commentator on Friedrich Nietzsche, examining the ways his interpr…
This dissertation interprets Nietzsche’s concept of will to power as the basis for a philosophical theory of forms, or a “morphology of will to power”. While the notion of a philosophical theory of forms is most closely associated with either a Platonic doctrine of ideas or Aris…
This study examines the understanding of leadership in Germany, as it developed throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The investigation is based on the work of contemporary writers and thinkers, as well as on the leadership styles of key political figures. Given…
In this thesis I argue that following Hegel's commitment to both political philosophy and political theory, Max Stirner, Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche take flight from doing political theory in the 'Western' tradition. I demonstrate that Stirner, Marx and Nietzsche all use t…