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Nietzsche’s Genealogy as Enlightenment Lecture One Dr. Peter Kail St. Peter’s College, Oxford Two Formidable Issues ? What is ‘Enlightenment’? ? What is the character of Nietzsche’s philosophy? The ‘Enlightenment’ ? The clich233。 of the ‘Age of Reason’ ? Paradigmatically the philosophe ? Kant and Enlightenment as humanity’s emergence from selfincurred immaturity which ‘is the inability to use one’s understanding without the guidance of others’. Supposed Key Features ? Unbounded optimism about reason’s reach ? The fixity and uniformity of universal human nature ? Antitraditional religion ? Scientific conception of social structures and their improvement ? Individual freedom and rational relation to authority Scepticism about the ‘Enlightenment’ ? How many ‘Enlightenments’? And where? English, Scottish, German, French…. ? Reason, Scepticism, Passion ? Religion and the Enlightenment (Berkeley, Reid, Butler….) ? Enlightenment and liberation (The socalled ‘moderate’ and ‘radical’ Enlightenments) Scepticism about the ‘Enlightenment’ ? How many ‘Enlightenments’ and where? English, Scottish, German, French…. ? Reason, Scepticism, Passion ? Religion and the Enlightenment (Berkeley, Reid, Butler….) ? Enlightenment and liberation (The socalled ‘moderate’ and ‘radical’ Enlightenments) Nietzsche Favourable to the Enlightenment? ? 1st edition of HAH dedicated to Voltaire ? Nietzsche’s continued admiration for the French ? D 197 German Hostility to the Enlightenment ? The ressentiment of the French Revolution as antiEnlightenment ? Christianity as an unwitting contributor to