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Xerox University Microfilms 300 North Zaato Road Ann Arbor, Michigan 48100 75-3187 SCHERMER, Marsha Rockey, 1940- ON NIETZSCHE'S PURPORTED CONTRADICTORINESS: A REINTERPRETATION OF THE WORKS OF FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE WITH AN EMPHASIS ON NON-ASSERTIONAL LINGUISTIC ACTS. [Portions of Text 1n German.] The Ohio State University, Ph.D., 1974 Philosophy Xerox University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan48 ioe © 1975 MARSHA ROCKEY SCHERMER ALL RIGHTS RESERVED THIS DISSERTATION HAS BEEN MICROFILMED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED. ON NIETZSCHE'S PURPORTED CONTRADICTORINESS: A REINTERPRETATION OF THE WORKS OF FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE WITH AN EMPHASIS ON NON-ASSERTIONAL LINGUISTIC ACTS DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio S tate U niversity By Marsha Rockey Schermer, B.A., M.A. « * * » * The Ohio S tate U niversity 197U Reading Committee: Approved By Lee B. Brown, Adviser y / ) / ) Marvin Fox - L' Robert G. Turnbull iy~— /-JsLfr Adviser Department of Philosophy ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I wish to acknowledge the encouragement and assistance of Professors Lee B. Brown, Marvin Pox, Richard Garner, Virgil Hinshaw, Robert Turnbull, and Morris Weitz. I appreciate, as well, the continued support of Ms. Vicky Childress, Virginia Foster, Bette Hellinger and Debbie Jadwin. Harry A. Schermer has remained an understanding and sympathetic friend through out these five years of research and writing. i i vita July 23, ..............................Born- Chicago, Illinois 196 3 ......................................................B.A., Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio 1 965 ...................................................... M.A., Hie Ohio State U niversity, Columbus, Ohio 1965 -I 96 6 ............................................Research Assistant, Dept, of Psychology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois 1966 -I96 7 ............................................ Research Associate, Dept, of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Hie Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 1967-197 0 ............................................ Teaching Assistant, Lecturer, Dept, of Philosophy, The Ohio State U niversity, Columbus, Ohio 1970-present ......................................Instructor, Assistant Professor, Dept, of Philosophy, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio PUBLICATIONS Papers published Rockey, M.: Book Review: "Talking about time." Nature 21^: 635 (1967). Rockey, M.: "An analysis of Ackerman's concept of sty le." J. Aesthetics and Art Criticism 27: 331 (I 9 6 9 ). Rockey, M. and Fischer, R.: "An interpretation of the aesthetic experience of non-artists under psilocybin." Presented at 5th Interntl. Cong. Soc. Psychopath, of Expression. Paris. June 7- 10, 1967 . "Preactes." Sandoz editions. Fischer, R. and Rockey, M.: "A steady state concept of evolution, learning, perception, hallucination and dreaming." Intematl. J. Neurology 6: 182 ( 1 9 6 7 ). i i i VITA, co n t. Fischer, B. and Hockey, M.: "A h eu ristic model of creativity." Experientia 23:150 (1 967 ). Fischer, R. and Rockey, M. :"Bsychophysics of excitation and tran- quilization from a steady state perspective." In Neurosciences Research, edit, by Ehrenpreis, S.E. and Solnitzky, N. Academic Press (196 8 ). Tosi, 0., Rockey, M., and Fischer, R.: "Quantitative measurement of time contraction induced by psilocybin." Arzneimittl.-Forschung 18: 535 ( 1968 ). Fischer, R., Griffin, F., and Rockey, M.: "Gustatory chemoreceptian in man: multidisciplinary aspects and perspectives." Perspectives in Biol, and Med. 9:5^9 (1966). Fischer, R., Marks, P., and Rockey, M.: "Der Einfluss der Fersonlich- keitsstruktus auf den Verlauf der Modell-psychose." Paper presented at the First Central European Symp. for Pharmacopsychiatry and Psychopharmacology, Karlovy Vary, Oct. 2-5, 19 6 7 . Arzneimittel.- Forschung 1 9 : ^78 ( 196 9 ). Fischer, R., Marks, P., Hill, R.M., and Rockey, M.: "Personality structure as the main determinant of drug induced (model) psychoses. Nature 218: 296 ( 1968). Papers read "Nietzsche on Nobility," Kenyon Symposium, September, 1970. "Nietzsche on Nobility," The Philosophical Society, College of Fredonia, New York, March, 1971. "The Not So Ordinary Use of the Concept o f N obility." Hie Ohio Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Columbus, Ohio, A pril, 1972. "Comments on Jagger's Four Concepts of Women's Liberation." The West ern Division Meetings of The American Philosophical A ssociation, St. Louis, May, 1972. "Two Dilemmas Concerning the Sovereignty o f the Body," Hie Ohio Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio. A pril, 1973* iv VITA cont. FIELDS OF STUDY Major Field: Riilosophy of Language and the works of Nietzsche Studies in Hiilosophy of Language, Professors Morris Weitz and Richard Garner Studies on N ietzsche, Professors Lee B. Brown, Marvin Fox and Robert Turnbull v TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE! ACKNCWIEDGMENTS................................................................................................ i i VITA..................................................... iii LIST OP TABLES............................................ Viii CHAPTER I. THE PROBLEM........................................................................................ 1 Introduction Contradictions and assertions Linguistic acts: Austin, Searle and Grice A restatement of the problem to be addressed II. KAUFMANN'S COMMENTARY: A SENSE OF NIETZSCHE'S PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEM..................... 58 Introduction Explicit -characterizations of Nietzsche’s method Kaufmann explicitly relies exclusively upon interpretations ■which axe assertional but appeals implicitly to other speech acts III. DANTO’S COMMENTARY: NIETZSCHE VIEWED AS ANTICIPATING CONTEMPORARY ANALYTIC PH3L0S0IHY.......................................... 106 Danto’s view in d eta il Critical response to Danto IV. JASPERS' COMMENTARY: CONTRADICTIONS AS PRESENTATION OF BEING........................... 171 introduction The distinction held by Jaspers and Nietzsche between philosophical truth and s c ie n tific knowledge Methods of interpreting Nietzsche The Kauftaann-Jaspers debate v i TABLE OP CONTENTS cont. MORGAN'S COMMENTARY: NIETZSCHE AS THE MASKED FISHERMAN, 226 Introduction Morgan's notion of Nietzsche as the masked fisherman Morgan relies on the assertional interpretation VI. VAIHINGER'S COMMENTARY: THE HULOSOHIY OF AS-IF AND ITS MANIFESTATIONS IN THE WORKS OF NIETZSCHE........................... 2^5 Introduction The philosophy of as-if Nietzsche's philosophy of as-if The assertion of the philosophy of as-if is not the same as the use of that view VII. ETERNAL RECURRENCE......................................................................... 270 Nietzsche's task: The provision of metaphysical comfort Eternal recurrence and other aspects of Nietzsche's philosophy Nietzsche's utterances on eternal recurrence and their interpretation APPENDIX A___ 3^0 B.... 352 C___ 355 BIBLIOGRAPHY k03 v ii LIST OF TABLES page Table 1: Camparis on of Austin, Searle and Grice.... 21 Table 2: Grice's Principles of Conversation .............. k-7 Table 3: Chronology of N ietzsche's Works .................... 277 v i i i CHAPTER I : THE PROBLEM 1. Introduction The central problem to which I originally addressed myself was whether or not one could find in the writings of Nietzsche what one would consider a positive moral theory. This problem, it seemed, however, required the detailed consideration of three major sub-problems: 1. What is Nietzsche*s method, i.e ., In what manner are we to take his writing, do we read it as poetry, as polemic, as critical philosophy, as psychology, etc.? 2.