Table Of ContentNietzsche’s Justice
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McGill-Queen’s studies in the history of ideas
series editor: Philip J. cercone
1 Problems of cartesianism 10 consent, coercion,
Edited by Thomas M. Lennon, and Limit:
John M. Nicholas, and John the Medieval Origins of
W. Davis Parliamentary Democracy
Arthur P. Monahan
2 the Development of the
idea of history in Antiquity 11 scottish common sense
Gerald A. Press in Germany, 1768–1800:
A contribution to the
3 claude Buffier and
history of critical Philosophy
thomas Reid:
Manfred Kuehn
two common-sense
Philosophers 12 Paine and cobbett:
Louise Marcil-Lacoste the transatlantic connection
David A. Wilson
4 schiller, hegel, and Marx:
state, society, and the Aesthetic 13 Descartes and the enlightenment
ideal of Ancient Greece Peter A. Schouls
Philip J. Kain
14 Greek scepticism:
5 John case and Aristotelianism Anti-Realist trends
in Renaissance england in Ancient thought
Charles B. Schmitt Leo Groarke
6 Beyond Liberty and Property: 15 the irony of theology and the
the Process of self- Nature of Religious thought
Recognition in eighteenth- Donald Wiebe
century Political thought
16 Form and transformation:
J.A.W. Gunn
A study in the Philosophy
7 John toland: his Methods, of Plotinus
Manners, and Mind Frederic M. Schroeder
Stephen H. Daniel
17 From Personal Duties
8 coleridge and the inspired Word towards Personal Rights:
Anthony John Harding Late Medieval and early
Modern Political thought,
9 the Jena system, 1804–5:
c. 1300–c. 1650
Logic and Metaphysics
Arthur P. Monahan
G.W.F. hegel
Translation edited by 18 the Main Philosophical
John W. Burbidge and Writings and the Novel Allwill
George di Giovanni Friedrich heinrich Jacobi
Introduction and notes by Translated and edited by
H.S. Harris George di Giovanni
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19 Kierkegaard as humanist: 29 Jacob Burckhardt and
Discovering My self the crisis of Modernity
Arnold B. Come John R. Hinde
20 Durkheim, Morals, 30 the Distant Relation:
and Modernity time and identity in spanish-
W. Watts Miller American Fiction
Eoin S. Thomson
21 the career of toleration:
John Locke, Jonas Proast, 31 Mr simson’s Knotty case:
and After Divinity, Politics, and Due
Richard Vernon Process in early eighteenth-
century scotland
22 Dialectic of Love:
Anne Skoczylas
Platonism in schiller’s
Aesthetics 32 Orthodoxy and
David Pugh enlightenment:
George campbell in
23 history and Memory
the eighteenth century
in Ancient Greece
Jeffrey M. Suderman
Gordon Shrimpton
33 contemplation
24 Kierkegaard as theologian:
and incarnation:
Recovering My self
the theology of Marie-
Arnold B. Come
Dominique chenu
25 enlightenment and Christophe F. Potworowski
conservatism in
34 Democratic Legitimacy:
Victorian scotland:
Plural Values
the career of
and Political Power
sir Archibald Alison
F.M. Barnard
Michael Michie
35 herder on Nationality,
26 the Road to egdon
humanity, and history
heath: the Aesthetics
F.M. Barnard
of the Great in Nature
Richard Bevis 36 Labeling People:
French scholars on society,
27 Jena Romanticism and its
Race, and empire, 1815–1849
Appropriation of Jakob Böhme:
Martin S. Staum
theosophy – hagiography –
Literature 37 the subaltern Appeal to
Paolo Mayer experience: self-identity,
Late Modernity, and the
28 enlightenment and community:
Politics of immediacy
Lessing, Abbt, herder, and the
Craig Ireland
Quest for a German Public
Benjamin W. Redekop
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38 the invention of Journalism 47 under conrad’s eyes:
ethics: the Path to Objectivity the Novel as criticism
and Beyond Michael John DiSanto
Stephen J.A. Ward
48 Media, Memory, and
39 the Recovery of Wonder: the First World War
the New Freedom David Williams
and the Asceticism of Power
49 An Aristotelian Account
Kenneth L. Schmitz
of induction: creating
40 Reason and self-enactment something from Nothing
in history and Politics: Louis Groarke
themes and Voices
50 social and Political Bonds:
of Modernity
A Mosaic of contrast
F.M. Barnard
and convergence
41 the More Moderate side F.M. Barnard
of Joseph de Maistre:
51 Archives and the
Views on Political Liberty
event of God:
and Political economy
the impact of Michel Foucault
Cara Camcastle
on Philosophical theology
42 Democratic society David Galston
and human Needs
52 Between the Queen
Jeff Noonan
and the cabby:
43 the circle of Rights expands: Olympe de Gouges’s
Modern Political thought Rights of Women
after the Reformation, 1521 John R. Cole
(Luther) to 1762(Rousseau)
53 Nature and Nurture in French
Arthur P. Monahan
social sciences, 1859–1914
44 the canadian Founding: and Beyond
John Locke and Parliament Martin S. Staum
Janet Ajzenstat
54 Public Passion:
45 Finding Freedom: hegel’s Rethinking the Grounds
Philosophy and the for Political Justice
emancipation of Women Rebecca Kingston
Sara MacDonald
55 Rethinking the Political:
46 When the French the sacred, Aesthetic Politics,
tried to Be British: and the collège de sociologie
Party, Opposition, and Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi
the Quest for the civil
56 Materialist ethics and
Disagreement, 1814–1848
Life-Value
J.A.W. Gunn
Jeff Noonan
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57 hegel’s Phenomenology: 59 ideas, concepts, and Reality
the Dialectical Justification of John W. Burbidge
Philosophy’s First Principles
60 the enigma of Perception
Ardis B. Collins
D.L.C. Maclachlan
58 the social history of ideas
61 Nietzsche’s Justice:
in Quebec, 1760–1896
Naturalism in search of
Yvan Lamonde
an ethics
Translated by Phyllis Aronoff
Peter R. Sedgwick
and Howard Scott
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Nietzsche’s Justice
NAtuRALisM iN seARch
OF AN ethics
Peter R. sedgwick
McGill-Queen’s university Press
Montreal & Kingston • London • ithaca
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1. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844–1900 – criticism and
interpretation. 2. Justice. 3. Naturalism. 4. ethics. i. title.
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