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SUMMARY:"Democracy, Nobility, and Philosophy:   Nietzsche and the 'Pathos of Distance'" 
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 Jack Paynter 2016 Lecture, James Madison College, 
 featuring University Distinguished Professor 
 Emeritus M. Richard Zinman. Presenting "Democracy, 
 Nobility, and Philosophy: Nietzsche 
 and the 'Pathos of Distance'" \n
 Free 
 and open to the public.\n
 Professor Zinman's 
 lecture will take its bearings from the following 
 observations:  Our time is the age in 
 which modern democracy has triumphed. In the 
 contemporary West almost everyone agrees that 
 democracy is the only just regime and, indeed, 
 is the best regime simply. But our time is 
 also the one in which Nietzsche has triumphed. 
 Most would agree that he is the most influential 
 thinker of our time. Yet Nietzsche is 
 the most profound, passionate, and immoderate 
 critic of modern democracy. He emphatically 
 denies that modern democracy is a just regime 
 and has contempt for the notion that it is the 
 best regime. In the midst of the triumph of 
 democracy, he is a radical partisan of aristocracy. 
 Nietzsche was not the first aristocrat 
 thinker who lived in an age in which democracy 
 had triumphed. Both Aristotle and Tocqueville 
 shared that fate. Yet, unlike Nietzsche, 
 Aristotle and Tocqueville offered only moderate 
 critiques of democracy and seemed to make 
 their peace with the reigning regime. Each, 
 in his way, could even be said to be a friend 
 of democracy. Why was Nietzsche, in contrast, 
 such an immoderate critic of democracy? Is 
 his immoderate partisanship defensible?  More 
 important, is Nietzsche correct about modern 
 democracy's defects? Can contemporary partisans 
 of democracy offer a persuasive response 
 to Nietzsche's critique?\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: public\n
 Contact name: Kim Allan\n
 Contact phone: 5173533381\n
 Contact email: allank@msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jack-paynter-lecture-with-professor-emeritus-richard-zinman-ticket\n
LOCATION:Case Hall, Club Spartan
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