Heroic-Idyllic Philosophizing: Nietzsche and the Epicurean Tradition

Not so Idyllic

It is widely thought that life in the country involves less strain than life in a city. Dr. Alexander Mitchell works in the Fens where he^sees the problems and pressures of rural life which, although different from those in a city, can be just as severe and damaging. we will all have sung at one time or another 'Nymphs and shepherds come away', or read of 'Sport with Amaryllis in the shade', or...

Nietzsche

Der 'Nietzsche-Thesaurus' des Nietzsche-Online-Portals

The ‚Nietzsche-Thesaurus’ ist part of an Internet-Portal to the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (under construction). By using the complex Index of a Citation Lexicon (print version) and combining it with the lexikal data and structure of the ‘Deutscher Wortschatz’ (Wehrle/Eggers, a kind of transformation of the Roget’s Thesaurus), a relational access system is developed. Concept and Sta...

Nietzsche and Contemporary Metaethics

1I use the following standard acronyms when citing Nietzsche’s texts: TheAntichrist (A); Beyond Good and Evil (BGE);TheBirth of Tragedy (BT);TheCase ofWagner (CW);Daybreak (D); Ecce Homo (EH); On the Genealogy of Morality (GM); The Gay Science (GS); Human, All-Too-Human (HH); Nietzsche contra Wagner (NCW); Twilight of the Idols (TI); Untimely Meditations (UM); Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Z). I cite...

Heroic Medicine

Nearly 60 years after he died, surgeons from around the world still honour the memory of Sir Robert Jones, the father of modern British orthopaedics. Sir Robert lived and worked at a time when crippled children were a common sight on Britain's streets, and one of his greatest achievements was to show that many of these children-the victims chiefly of tuberculosis, rickets, and poliomyelitis-cou...