Nietzsche’s Will to Power led by the hands of Morality

• Thesis title in Czech: Nietzscheho Vůle k moci v osidlech morálky
• Thesis title in English: Nietzsche’s Will to Power led by the hands of Morality
• Key words: Vůle k Moci|Morálka|Emoce|Pocit|Vnitrní Zkušenost|Překrývající se Mnoho|Hodnota|Prostředek
• English key words: Will to Power|Morality|Emotion|Sensation|Inner Experience|Overlapping Multitude|Value|Means
• Academic year of topic announcement: 2020/2021
• Thesis type: Bachelor's thesis
• Thesis language: angličtina
• Department: Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies (21-UFAR)
• Supervisor: Daniele De Santis, Dott. Ric.
• Author: hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept.
• Date of registration: 26.11.2020
• Date of assignment: 16.12.2020
• Administrator's approval: not processed yet
• Confirmed by Study dept. on: 05.01.2021
• Date and time of defence: 08.02.2022 09:00
• Date of electronic submission: 02.01.2022
• Date of proceeded defence: 08.02.2022
• Submitted/finalized: committed by student and finalized
• Opponents: doc. Mgr. Tereza Matějčková, Ph.D.

Guidelines

The aim of this thesis is to propose a certain way of conceiving what is usually taken to be one of the key-concepts of Nietzsche’s philosophy – the Will to Power. Although Nietzsche never defines such a concept, we will try to unpack it in the following systematic way. The key to the puzzle will be represented by another notion that Nietzsche thoroughly elaborates on – Morality. Even though it might not be apparent at first glance, these two concepts are closely related, and one might even claim that they are inseparable. This fact comes to full light throughout two of Nietzsche’s latest books we will be focusing on: On the Genealogy of Morals and Beyond Good and Evil. These two texts will represent for us a solid ground in order to search after a mysterious notion that the Will to Power most definitely is. For, it is our belief that a firm grasp of what Nietzsche intends by the latter notion can be obtained only if we consider it from the standpoint of the genealogy of moral values and, in particular, of the way in which Nietzsche considers the development of humanity from a pre-moral stage to the stage of morality and eventually up to that of extra-morality. More concretely, as the Will to Power finds (indirect) expression in our system of (hierarchical) values, then the assessment of the genesis of the latter will provide us with the only possible, secure access to the former.

References

Primární literatura
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. Beyond Good and Evil. Trans. R. J. Hollingdale. London: Penguin, 2003.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. On the Genealogy of Morals. Trans. Douglas Smith. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2008.

Sekundární literatura
Acharya, Vinod. Nietzsche's Meta-existentialism. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014.
Deleuze, Gilles. Nietzsche a Filosofie. Trans. Čestmír Pelikán and Josef Fulka. Praha: Herrmann & Synové, 2016.
Johnson, Dirk R. Nietzsche's Anti-Darwinism. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013.
Kaufmann, Walter Arnold. Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist. Princenton: Princenton UP, 2013.
Kouba, Pavel. Nietzsche: Filosofická Interpretace. OIKOYMENH, 2006.