Paul Rée

Dzieła

• 1875Psychologische Beobachtungen (Obserwacje psychologiczne)

  Pierwsza książka Rée (1875), zbiór aforyzmów o ludzkich motywach, dwa lata przed Pochodzeniem uczuć moralnych.

• 1877Der Ursprung der moralischen Empfindungen (Pochodzenie uczuć moralnych)

  Wywodzi uczucia moralne z nawyku i użyteczności oraz wyjaśnia altruizm w kategoriach ewolucyjnych za Darwinem; Nietzsche wymienia ją w przedmowie do dzieła Z genealogii moralności jako impuls własnych badań, które odrzucają jej wnioski.

Stanowisko

Rée is on the map for the book that gave Nietzsche the first impulse for the Genealogy of Morals. In The Origin of Moral Feelings he derives moral feelings from habit and utility and explains altruism in evolutionary terms, building on Darwin’s account of morality. Working with Rée in Sorrento in 1876–77 shaped Human, All Too Human. In the preface to the Genealogy Nietzsche names Rée’s book as the occasion of his own inquiry but says that he rejected nearly every inference of it and contests its derivation of morality from altruistic valuation.

Życie i kontekst

Paul Rée was born on 21 November 1849 in Bartelshagen in Pomerania. He studied philosophy and law in Leipzig and by 1875 had qualified for a doctorate at Halle with a dissertation on the noble in Aristotle’s Ethics. His first book, Psychological Observations, appeared in 1875. In 1876–77 he worked with Friedrich Nietzsche in Sorrento, where both were guests of Malwida von Meysenbug, and in 1877 he published The Origin of Moral Feelings. After the friendship broke down in the autumn of 1882 over Lou Salomé, with whom he then lived in Berlin, he became a practising physician. He died on 28 October 1901 near Celerina in Switzerland.

Dalsze główne dzieła

• Psychological Observations (Psychologische Beobachtungen, 1875)
• The Origin of Moral Feelings (Der Ursprung der moralischen Empfindungen, 1877)