Nietzsche contra Haeckel

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...

Haeckel, embryos, and evolution.

Everyone recognizes that advances in science and technology are required to fuel future U.S. economic growth. It is for that reason that the federal govemment for nearly 50 years has been the steward of American science and technology (S&T), funding the education and training of scientists and engineers as well as the development of our scientific and technical knowledge base. Yet what exactly ...

Nietzsche on Freedom

One of the very few matters of nearly universal agreement with respect to Nietzsche interpretation, one that bridges the great analytic/continental divide, is that Nietzsche was offering some sort of account of freedom, in contradistinction to the ‘ascetic’ or ‘slavish’ ways of the past. What remains in dispute is the character of this account. In this paper I present Nietzsche’s account of fre...

H Haeckel , Ernst ( 1834 – 1919 )

Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel was Charles Darwin's foremost champion at the turn of the nineteenth century. More people prior to World War I learned of evolutionary theory through his voluminous publications than through any other source. His Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte (Natural history of creation, 1868) went through 12 increasingly augmented German editions (1868–1920) and was tra...