The Ontology of Becoming and the Ethics of Particularity

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a priori: innate, 23; and judgments, 56 Abraham: and Isaac, 123, 133 Abram, David, 166, 218n1 absolutes, moral, 192–93 Acton, Lord: on power, 175, 196 acts: in self-transcendence, 86–87 adolescence: and change, 183; defiance in, 116; and écart, 132; sexuality in, 97, 107–8, 112 Adventures of the Dialectic (Bien), 155 Aeschylus, 16 aesthetic criterion for values, 74–75, 85, 87 aestheticism, 59 afterworlds, 21, 94, 181–89, 217n33 Agamemnon, 172 agape (universal love), 119, 122 agon: conscience as, 138–39; of debate, 172; of life vs. death, 21; as progress, 160; and superego, 135 AIDS, 106 aisthesis, 114–15 Also Sprach Zarathustra (Strauss), 4 alterity, 132–33, 138–39, 155–56, 158, 161 Ambremerine (Dillon home), xviii American Philosophical Association, 161, 198 amor fati doctrine, 25, 30, 34, 47–48, 125, 183 Anaximander, 170 animals: distinction from humans 104–5; responsibility to, xxi, 169–70 Anselm, Saint, 23 anthropomorphic projection, xxix– xxxi anti-Semitism, 17 apartheid, 199 Apollonian, the, 16, 29, 30 appearances (Erscheinungen), 5, 36–39, 69 Aquinas, 124, 134 Aristotle: on friendship of utility, 120; on spoken words, 9–11 art: and flesh, 213n15; and illusion, 3–9; redeeming life, 16; science as, 30; and self-transcendence, 35; and truth, 72–75; Wagner and, 21–22 Art, Truth and Illusion (Dillon): appendix to, xxxiv–xxxv, 89; editing of, xxxiii– xxxv; manuscript of, xvi, xxiii–xxvii artist, the: and community, 32–33; as establishing conventions, 11–12; heroic, 6–9; lies of, 13, 204–5n22; and metaphysical comfort, 49; as skeptic, 13 Aryans, 19 asceticism, 59 Ashcroft, John, 196 assessment, moral, 51, 62, 148–50 atemporality, 180–81, 191–92 authenticity: and the herd, 131–32; insufficiency as moral concept, 137–39; madness of, 134–37; I n d e x ................................... 226 index authenticity: and the herd, (cont’d) Nietzsche on, xvii, 20, 124–26; solitude of, 194; as unity within self, 123 autonomy, 50–51, 118 Bach, Johann Sebastian, 4 Beauvoir, Simone de, 199 becoming: categories of, 52–53; metaphysics of, 186–87; ontology of, 45–46, 167–69; perceptual world of, 69–76; as strife, 138–39 Being and Time (Heidegger), 92–93, 136, 181, 193–94 Being-unto-Death, 129–30 Beyond Good and Evil (Nietzsche), 56–57, 69–87, 97 Beyond Romance (Dillon), xxi–xxii, xxviii Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Freud), 116, 177 Bien, Joseph, 155 Bill of Rights, 193 binaries: absolutism/relativism, 192– 93; Being/becoming, 12–13; body/ soul, 105; good/bad, 94; ground/ absence of ground, 153–54; life/ death, 180; nature/nurture, 111; passion/reason, 80, 84; relative/ absolute, 192–93; smart/dumb, 98; true/false, 58 binary thinking: and ecology, xxvi– xxvii; errors arising from, 101; Heidegger and, 135; as model of interpersonal relations, xxvi–xxvii, 77–78; Nietzsche and, 15–16; polemics of, 195; and violence, 149 biology, 90, 91, 102, 112 Birth of Tragedy, The (Nietzsche), 3–6, 8, 16, 23, 24, 26–27, 29 bodhisattva, 7 body, the: intellection dependent on, 180; lived, 101, 112, 156; and self, 66–67; and self-transcendence, 183–84; sexual, 102–4, 106–8; socially constructed, 102; and soul, 105; violence to, 145 Boyle’s law, 170, 171 Brazeale, Daniel: on Nietzsche, 8–9 Brown v. Board of Education, 199 Buddhism, 59, 61, 187 Burns, Robert, 103 Bush, George W., 163 Camus, Albert: on the absurd, 115 carnal knowledge: based on reversibility, 103, 121; and ethical recognition, 105–6; norms from, 108; values from, 101 causality, 55–56 Chiasmi International, xxxiv child, the, 49–51, 53 Chomsky, Noam, 163 Christianity, 17, 45, 68, 85, 94, 207n1, 217n33 circularity, 92, 185 Clinton, Bill, 217n20 cogito, the, 111, 182 collective, the, xxvi–xxvii, 190–91 communality, ethics of, 193–94 Communism, 118–19 community: and the artist, 32–33; of belief, 70; chiasmatic, 133; and culture, 159; vs. lucidity, 26; and sex, 121; of shared belief, 22, 23, 194; useful fiction in, 54–55 conceivability, limits of, 22–23 conflict, modulating of, 155–65 Conrad, Joseph, 174 conscience, call to, 123, 129–30, 133, 137–39 conservation discourse, 169–72 constructivism, 109 Continental philosophy/thought: deconstruction in, 79–80; genealogy in, 89–91; pessimism of, 160–61; transcendentalism of, 153–54 Copernicus, 75, 199 copula, 38 Critique of Judgment (Kant), 181 Critique of Pure Reason, The (Kant), 40–42 Cronos, 48 culture: adjustment to, 109–10; and community, 159; norms in, 101, index 227 112; vs. rights...