http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/friedrich-nietzsche Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Wed, 20 May 2026 00:33:22 -0400 Wed, 20 May 2026 00:33:22 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1773/a-nietzschean-interpretation-of-the-self-in-psychological-continuity By Harry P. Chalklin - There are two views of personal identity that many people find plausible. The first is the psychological continuity view; the second is what I shall call multiplicity views of the self. Despite their plausibility, these positions appear incompatible, as I shall go on to explain. In this essay, I propose the thesis that psychological continuity and multiplicity views of the self can be made compatible by thinking of the self, not as a continuous psychological unity, but instead as a continuous, creative, psychological task a person undertakes to form a self which feels more unified than it previously... Mon, 02 Dec 2019 08:38 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1773/a-nietzschean-interpretation-of-the-self-in-psychological-continuity http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1310/john-stuart-mills-solution-to-the-problem-of-socrates-in-the-autobiography By N L. N - Ever since its posthumous publication, John Stuart Mill’s Autobiography has elicited reactions of primarily disappointment and confusion. Thomas Carlyle famously deemed the book the “autobiography of a steam-engine” (quoted in Levi 295) and readers since have generally agreed with his verdict. Leslie Stephen and Harold Laski argue that Mill’s Autobiography is “severely deficient,” (Levi 284) on account of its mechanical and emotionally sterile prose and its complete lack of details about any aspects of Mill’s life which are not obviously relevant to his... Mon, 16 Nov 2015 08:02 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1310/john-stuart-mills-solution-to-the-problem-of-socrates-in-the-autobiography http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1059/tragedy-in-the-ideas-of-friedrich-nietzsche-and-oscar-wilde By N L. N - One Victorian writer whose similarities to Nietzsche continue to receive sustained attention is Oscar Wilde—even though, as is the case with most of Nietzsche’s English-speaking contemporaries, they probably never read one another (Allen, 2006, p. 386). Thomas Mann (1959) first compared Nietzsche and Wilde in an essay that aligns them as co-conspirators in the early wave of head-on assaults upon the “hypocritical morality of the middle-class Victorian age” (p. 157). As Mann observes, Nietzsche and Wilde contemplate the individual as an aesthetic project, undertaken against... Tue, 11 Aug 2015 06:18 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1059/tragedy-in-the-ideas-of-friedrich-nietzsche-and-oscar-wilde http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/570/dexter-democracy-and-nietzsche-puzzling-through-the-deep-end-of-americas-tv-obsession By Maxwell G. Mensinger - Within the milieu of American television, the vigilante serial killer, Dexter, stands alone with one of the largest audiences. Why should a violent antihero, who stalks and kills other serial killers, be so appealing to Americans with a democratic, law-abiding background? Does this suggest a growing lack of confidence in the American justice system? Or does it provide cathartic satisfactions of dark, deep-seated urges muffled by democratic laws? Specifically, what characterizes this disciplined vigilante, and what motivates him to kill? More importantly, do antihero extraordinaires like Dexter... Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:05 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/570/dexter-democracy-and-nietzsche-puzzling-through-the-deep-end-of-americas-tv-obsession