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词条 Paul Rée
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  1. Biography

  2. Bibliography

  3. Notes

  4. References

  5. External links

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Paul Ludwig Carl Heinrich Rée (21 November 1849 – 28 October 1901) was a German author and philosopher, and friend of Friedrich Nietzsche.

Biography

Rée was born in Bartelshagen, Province of Pomerania, Prussia on the noble estate "Rittergut Adlig Bartelshagen am Grabow" near the south coast of the Baltic Sea. He was the third child of assimilated Jewish[1] parents, lord of the manor Ferdinand Philipp Rée from Hamburg and Jenny Julie Philippine Rée (née Jenny Emilie Julie Georgine Jonas).

In the history of ideas, he is known as an auxiliary figure through his friendship with Friedrich Nietzsche rather than as an important philosopher in his own right. Most of the general judgments of his character and work go back to formulations of Nietzsche and their mutual friend Lou Andreas-Salomé.

Rée's status as the son of a wealthy businessman and landowner allowed him to study philosophy and law at the University of Leipzig. The monthly allowance Rée received from his family allowed him to pursue his own interests in his studies. He had read Darwin, Schopenhauer, and French writers such as La Bruyère and La Rochefoucauld. Rée conglomerated his diverse studies under the heading of “psychological observations”, describing human nature through aphorisms, literary and philosophical exegesis. By 1875, Rée had qualified for his doctorate from Halle, and produced a dissertation on “the noble” in Aristotle’s Ethics.

Rée's book The Origin of the Moral Sensations largely was written in the autumn of 1877 in Sorrento, where Rée and Nietzsche both worked by invitation of Malwida von Meysenbug. The book sought to answer two questions. First, Rée attempted to explain the occurrence of altruistic feelings in human beings. Second, Rée tried to explain the interpretive process which denoted altruistic feelings as moral. Reiterating the conclusions of Psychological Observations, Rée claimed altruism was an innate human drive that over the course of centuries has been strengthened by selection.

Published in 1877, The Origin of the Moral Sensations was Rée's second book. His first was titled Psychological Observations. In The Origin of the Moral Sensations, Rée announced in the foreword that the book was inductive. He first observed the empirical phenomena he thought constituted man's moral nature and then looked into their origins. Rée proceeded from the premise that we feel some actions to be good and others evil. From the latter came the guilty conscience. Rée also followed many philosophers in rejecting free will. The error of free will, Rée claims, lies behind the development of the feeling of justice:

{{quote|The feeling of justice thus arises out of two errors, namely, because the punishments inflicted by authorities and educators appear as acts of retribution, and because people believe in the freedom of the will.[2]}}

Rée rejected metaphysical explanations of good and evil; he thought that the best explanations were those offered by Darwin and Lamarck, who had traced moral phenomena back to their natural causes. Rée argued that our moral sentiments were the result of changes that had occurred over the course of many generations. Like Lamarck, Rée argued that acquired habits could be passed to later generations as innate characteristics. As an acquired habit, altruistic behavior eventually became an innate characteristic. Altruistic behavior was so beneficial, Rée claimed, that it came to be praised unconditionally, as something good in itself, apart from its outcomes.

Nietzsche criticized Rée's The Origin of the Moral Sensations in the preface to On the Genealogy of Morals, writing that "Perhaps I have never read anything to which I would have said to myself No, proposition by proposition, conclusion by conclusion, to the extent that I did to this book; yet quite without ill-humour or impatience."[3]

Rée's friendship with Nietzsche disintegrated in the late Fall 1882 due to complications from their mutual involvement with Lou Salomé. Rée became a practicing physician.[4]

Rée died by falling into the Charnadüra Gorge while hiking in the Swiss Alps near Celerina on 28 October 1901. According to Nietzsche's biographer Rüdiger Safranski, Rée fell from a "slippery cliff", and it "is unclear whether it was an accident or suicide."[5] Rée had declared, not long before his death, "I have to philosophize. When I run out of material about which to philosophize, it is best for me to die."[6]

Bibliography

  • Paul Rée, The Origin of the Moral Sensations, ed. Robin Small, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003
  • {{cite book|last1=Safranksi|first1=Rüdiger|title=Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography|date=2002|publisher=W.W. Norton|location=New York}}

Notes

1. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20030114123117/http://www4.hmc.edu:8001/humanities/beckman/Nietzsche/Salome.htm The Case of Lou Salome], Tad Beckman, 1995
2. ^Rée [1877] 2003
3. ^Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, tr. Walter Kaufmann, New York: Vintage, 1969, p. 18.
4. ^{{cite book|last1=Safranksi|first1=Rüdiger|title=Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography|date=2002|publisher=W.W. Norton|location=New York|pages=182–3}}
5. ^{{cite book|last1=Safranksi|first1=Rüdiger|title=Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography|date=2002|publisher=W.W. Norton|location=New York|pages=182–3}}
6. ^{{cite book|last1=Safranksi|first1=Rüdiger|title=Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography|date=2002|publisher=W.W. Norton|location=New York|pages=183}}

References

  • Ludger Luetkehaus, Ein Heiliger Immoralist. Paul Rée (1849-1901). Biografischer Essay, Marburg: Basilisken Presse, 2001
  • Ruth Stummann-Bowert (ed.), Malwida von Meysenbug-Paul Rée: Briefe an einen Freund, Würzburg: Könighausen und Neumann, 1998
  • Hubert Treiber (ed.), Paul Rée: Gesammelte Werke, 1875-1885, Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter Verlag, 2004

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