{"product_id":"9780252092244","title":"Basic Writings","description":"This book contains the first English translations of \u003ci\u003eThe Origin of the Moral Sensations\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePsychological Observations,\u003c\/i\u003e the two most important works by the German philosopher Paul Rée. These essays present Rée’s moral philosophy, which influenced the ideas of his close friend Friedrich Nietzsche considerably.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Nietzsche scholars have often incorrectly attributed to him arguments and ideas that are Rée’s and have failed to detect responses to Rée’s works in Nietzsche’s writings. Rée’s thinking combined two strands: a pessimistic conception of human nature, presented in the French moralists’ aphoristic style that would become a mainstay of Nietzsche’s own writings, and a theory of morality derived from Darwin’s theory of natural selection. Rée’s moral Darwinism was a central factor prompting Nietzsche to write \u003ci\u003eOn the Genealogy of Morals\u003c\/i\u003e and the groundwork for much of today’s “evolutionary ethics.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In an illuminating critical introduction, Robin Small examines Rée’s life and work, locating his application of evolutionary concepts to morality within a broader history of Darwinism while exploring Rée’s theoretical and personal relationship with Nietzsche. In placing Nietzsche in his intellectual and social context, Small profoundly challenges the myth of Nietzsche as a solitary thinker.\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47073966981360,"sku":"9780252092244","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780252092244_p0.jpg?v=1763679498","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780252092244","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}