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Cooper, Laurence. "Nietzsche's Politeia: Beyond Good and Evil and Plato's Republic" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, Fairmont Hotel, Mar 23, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p88818_index.html>

Cooper, L. , 2005-03-23 "Nietzsche's Politeia: Beyond Good and Evil and Plato's Republic" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, Fairmont Hotel Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p88818_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: To establish the relation between these two books, as I mean to do, is to open the way to a new understanding of many elements of Nietzsche’s thought. My goal in this paper is to address just one of those elements and only from the standpoint from which it is addressed in Beyond Good and Evil. This element is, however, the most basic element of Nietzsche’s mature thought and constitutes the matter, as it were, to which Nietzsche’s political project in Beyond Good and Evil is a giving of form: that matter, if it is permissible to speak in such terms of something that is essentially energic, is will to power. The standpoint from which it is addressed in Beyond Good and Evil is the standpoint of politics, understanding that word in the broadest possible sense. Like the Republic, Beyond Good and Evil addresses a great number of topics and often revises or even overturns earlier formulations. Nevertheless Nietzsche’s book, like Plato’s, is unified by an overarching theme and structure – a dynamic or developmental structure, which is what allows for unity in the face of revisions and reformulations. Indeed, in the broadest sense Beyond Good and Evil and the Republic have identical themes and structures. The organizing theme is nothing other than what Plato’s title suggests. His dialogue, and Nietzsche’s book, are fundamentally concerned with addressing the question of the best regime – the best regime for the city and the best regime for the individual human being. (Notwithstanding early appearances to the contrary, it is for the sake of the latter that the former is addressed [Republic 592b].) My ultimate purpose, then, is to explore the relation between Beyond Good and Evil and the Republic in order to consider will to power as it is revealed in the former, i.e., from the standpoint of the question of the best regime. At best this can only yield a very partial account of will to power, given that Nietzsche examined will to power from multiple standpoints and came to see it as the fundamental fact not only of politics but of human life, indeed all life and even all that exists. Yet as partial perspectives go this isn’t a bad one, for it is precisely by studying the psychic regime of the highest humans in the way that Nietzsche does in Beyond Good and Evil that one can learn most about the Whole (36). This methodological principle is not the least of Nietzsche’s affinities with Plato.

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