Modernity, Nobility, Morality

Modernity and Morality in Habermas’s Discourse Ethics

‘Modernity and Morality in Habermas’s Discourse Ethics’

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Aristotle’s Magnanimity and Nietzsche’s Nobility

At first glance, a comparison between Nietzsche and Aristotle may seem improbable. If Nietzsche is indeed a moral relativist, as is often suggested, why is Nietzsche concerned with the development of human character? There are explicit instances of Nietzsche assessing the positive and negative, beneficial and injurious, traits of human character. In “What is Noble” of Beyond Good and Evil, Niet...

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity

The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century

This fine volume of essays on the nobility in the later eighteenth century is a most welcome addition to the existing literature. It comprises eleven essays by American historians whose research engages with the concept of nobility. The collection issues from a conference in 2004 and reflects the cultural turn in historiography that has such sway, particularly in America. There is a stimulating...