BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260606T033335Z DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20160921T100000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20160921T113000 SUMMARY:The role of practices in Nietzsche's affirmative ethics UID:20260610T195902Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Australia/Melbourne LOCATION:Monash University\, Clayton\, Australia\, 3800 DESCRIPTION:

In this work in progress seminar I will continue to reconstruct Nietzsche&rsquo\;s affirmative ethics\, this time focusing on the concept of &lsquo\;practice&rsquo\;. In the framework I presented last year\, drives and practices are seen as interacting to produce sensations. When a resulting sensation reflects affirmation\, the product of the related drive and practice is evaluated as good. This time I will discuss how the concept of &lsquo\;practice&rsquo\; has been viewed by 3 important readers of Nietzsche: Alasdair MacIntyre\, Robert Solomon\, and Richard Schacht. I will argue that MacIntyre presents a useful historical account of ethical thinking\, and that Solomon is right in correcting MacIntyre about Nietzsche&rsquo\;s place in this tradition. In doing so\, Solomon finds a fruitful path for the study of practices in Nietzsche&rsquo\;s ethics\, which he unfortunately does not follow. Schacht begins to explore this path\, working out many important details of the role of practices in Nietzsche&rsquo\;s thinking. I will suggest some corrections to Schacht&rsquo\;s account and propose that agonism\, tragedy\, and intellectual honesty are the major practices grounding an account of Nietzsche&rsquo\;s ethics that is affirmative\, substantively rich\, and generalisable.

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