This seminar is scheduled to take place on Saturday, May 31. It will be focused on the three essays or treatises of Friedrich Nietzsche's work

In our discussion and Q & A, it is likely that we may stray into other related topics connected to Nietzsche's thought, but we will try to keep the discussion focused primarily on the main topics for the seminar.

Here is the schedule for the seminar (all times are Central Standard Time)

9:00 AM CST - Part 1: Overview of the Text and Nietzsche's Thought, Preface to the work, Essay 1: Good and Evil", "Good and Bad"

We will be discussing the following topics:

• The Genealogy in context of Nietzsche’s works
• Genealogy’s meaning in terms of philosophical method
• The problem of the ethics of pity
• Mistaken views of “English psychologists
• The original valuation of Good vs Bad
• The priestly aristocracy and humanity as “interesting creature”
• The slave revolt in morality and the valuation Evil vs Good
• Metaphysics of will-to-power
• The dynamic of ressentiment

11:00 AM CST - Part 2: Essay 2:  "Guilt", "Bad Conscience", and "Related Matters"

We will be discussing the following topics:

• The development of responsibility and conscience
• The contractual relation of creditor and debtor
• The multiple purposes and functions of punishment
• The rise of the community and the state
• Ressentiment, justice, and revenge
• Internalization of instincts
• Religion arising in relation to ancestors
• Christianity and the maximum God
• The contemporary situation of nihilism

1:00 PM CST - Essay 3: "What Is The Meaning Of Ascetic Ideals?"

We will be discussing the following topics:

• What ascetic ideals are
• Changes in Wagner’s works and motivations
• Kant’s and Schopenhauer’s aesthetics
• Philosophers fondness for ascetic ideals
• The priest as an ascetic type
• The ascetic ideal, life, and morbidity
• Love of neighbor and will to power
• Whether free spirits are really free
• Science, scholarship, and ascetics
• The situation of nihilism

Students enrolled in the seminar are free to attend and participate in as many or as few sessions as they would like to while it is running