Fall Seminar: Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of MoralsWeek 4: Ascetic Ideals
Following the success of his The Odyssey seminar last year, Greg Campbell is back for a four-part seminar series on Friedrich Nietzsche’s essay collection On the Genealogy of Morals.
Participants will read through the full work and explore its themes through open discussion. To help make the seminar a convivial and ongoing conversation, participants are expected to attend all four sessions.
This activity is open to all Morrin Centre members regardless of experience with seminars or philosophy.
To learn more and register, please see this page.
Week 4 Themes
Will to nothingness; beauty and excitement; Schopenhauer; intellectualism and asceticism; the ascetic ideal’s will to power; origins of reason and meaning; disguise of reason; priestly opponent; instincts of asceticism; perspectivity (many eyes); sickness and health; consolation; the denial of life; rituals and mechanical activity; guilt and sin; suffering and meaning; science and knowing: the denial of all value; questioning truth and value; truth and the death of god; will to truth and salvation; the highest values overcome themselves.
The Facilitator
Greg Campbell trained as a pharmacist before returning to college to study philosophy and history of ideas. Having completed a Masters degree at Essex University in the UK and obtained his doctorate in philosophy from University College Dublin in Ireland, he undertook a post-doctorate at Columbia University, New York (aesthetics and politics in Adorno). During his studies, Greg continued to work part-time as a pharmacist. In addition to teaching a humanities course at Wilbur Smith College, Greg was also a stay-at-home dad for a while after moving to Chicago in 2014. Since moving to Quebec City in 2020, Greg has continued to work in the education sector.