Dear all, The Moral Sciences Club's next meeting will be held on Tuesday 18th October. We are delighted to welcome Dr Tom Stern (UCL), who will be giving a talk entitled "The Problem with Nietzsche's Ethics of Affirmation". Here is the abstract:
Affirmation is the cornerstone of Nietzsche’s ethics. No understanding of his philosophy can fail to take it into account. The paper offers a new reading of affirmation in the later Nietzsche, in light of his emphasis on what is ‘natural’. By looking closely at his arguments connecting affirmation and nature, we can get Nietzsche’s later philosophical strategy into much sharper focus. But in doing so, we reveal two major problems which confront his work, by his own standards. The result is a much-needed clarification and critique of this central Nietzschean ideal. The meeting will be held at 2:30 until 4:15, in the Barbara White Room at Newnham College, and will be followed by tea and coffee. As with last week, you'll need to go a little further up Sidgwick Avenue to find Newnham's porters' lodge, from where there'll be signposts to the Barbara White Room. You might want to give yourself an extra 5 minutes for the slightly circuitous route through Newnham's beautiful gardens. For those who have not yet paid, there is a yearly membership fee of £7.50 for students and £15 for others, or a one-off fee of £3 (£2 for students). These can be purchased online at: http://onlinesales.admin.c am.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=75&prodvarid=87 -- Matt Dougherty, James Hutton, and Li Li Tan Secretaries of the Moral Sciences Club Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge msc...@hermes.cam.ac.uk http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
