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"Honesty as the Best Policy?: Nietzsche on Redlichkeit and the Contrast between Stoic and Epicurean Strategies of the Self"

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This paper explores Nietzsche's evolving concern with Redlichkeit, or a certain kind of frank-speaking honesty, focusing on its salience in his texts from Daybreak through Beyond Good and Evil, and contrasting with his treatment of Ehrlichkeit or respectable honesty. Deeply rooted in his admiration for the French moralists such as Montaigne and their ideal of honnêteté, and in his engagement with the ancient Cynics among others, Nietzsche's concern for frank honesty also structures his evolving evaluation of the cognitive strategies of the Stoics and Epicureans. Whereas most treatments of Nietzsche's attitude to these ancient schools focus on his view of their moral strategies, placing them in the context instead of the cognitive concern with Redlichkeit illuminates both his complex assessments of these schools and the nature of the honesty which he himself treats as admirable. Finally, this study yields a different account of the place of the 'middle period' works and of the late Geneaology of Morals in Nietzsche's corpus.

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Lane, Melissa. ""Honesty as the Best Policy?: Nietzsche on Redlichkeit and the Contrast between Stoic and Epicurean Strategies of the Self"" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2011-06-09 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p211869_index.html>

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Lane, M. , 2007-08-30 ""Honesty as the Best Policy?: Nietzsche on Redlichkeit and the Contrast between Stoic and Epicurean Strategies of the Self"" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <PDF>. 2011-06-09 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p211869_index.html

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Abstract: This paper explores Nietzsche's evolving concern with Redlichkeit, or a certain kind of frank-speaking honesty, focusing on its salience in his texts from Daybreak through Beyond Good and Evil, and contrasting with his treatment of Ehrlichkeit or respectable honesty. Deeply rooted in his admiration for the French moralists such as Montaigne and their ideal of honnêteté, and in his engagement with the ancient Cynics among others, Nietzsche's concern for frank honesty also structures his evolving evaluation of the cognitive strategies of the Stoics and Epicureans. Whereas most treatments of Nietzsche's attitude to these ancient schools focus on his view of their moral strategies, placing them in the context instead of the cognitive concern with Redlichkeit illuminates both his complex assessments of these schools and the nature of the honesty which he himself treats as admirable. Finally, this study yields a different account of the place of the 'middle period' works and of the late Geneaology of Morals in Nietzsche's corpus.

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Honesty as the best policy: Nietzsche on Redlichkeit and the contrast between Stoic and Epicurean strategies of the self Dr Melissa Lane Faculty of History & King’s College Cambridge University melissa.lane@kings.cam.ac.uk Prepared for delivery at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association August 30th-September 2nd 2007. 2 In The End of Modernity 1 Gianni Vattimo asserted that postmodernism began in Nietzsche’s work. Indeed invocations of Nietzsche in relation to postmodernism are manifold. Thoughts attributed to Nietzsche
attendees of the Monday Seminar in Political Thought and Intellectual History at Cambridge University (Lent 2006 chaired by Quentin Skinner and invitation extended by him and Annabel Brett) for valuable comments and advice; Trinity College Library; the Centre for History and Economics King’s College Cambridge for hosting a research leave during the course of which the paper was conceived; the Rockefeller Foundation and MacArthur Foundation for funding that leave; and my colleagues in the History Faculty of Cambridge University


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