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This article argues that Nietzsche's transvaluation project refers not to a mere inversion or negation of a set of nihilism-prone, Judeo-Christian values but, instead, to a different conception of what a value is and how it functions. Traditional values function within a standard logical framework and claim legitimacy and "bindingness" based on exogenous authority with absolute extension. Nietzsche regards this framework as unnecessarily reductive in its attempted exclusion of contradiction and real opposition among competing values. I propose a nonstandard, dialetheic model of valuation that requires a value to be both true and false as well as neither true nor false. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the importance of music to philosopher Friedrich Wilhem Nietzsche's askesis. It explores the author's arguments on Nietzsche's resistance to decadence, which he claims is a kind of asceticism, or better known as askesis, that can be understood in musical terms. The author stresses the aim of Nietzsche's decadence-resisting askesis which is the attunement of the soul with life. He also emphasizes Nietzsche reassurance that he resists decadence by way of what he calls his special discipline, which he describes in terms of sacrifice, self-overcoming, and self-denial.

The article discusses the interpretation of Stanley Cavell to the works of philosopher Friedrich Wilhem Nietzsche. It explores Cavell's reading of Nietzsche, whom he described as a moral perfectionist, based on John Rawls' use of Nietzsche in the book "A Theory of Justice." It also discusses Cavell's arguments on the claims of Rawls that Nietzsche illustrates the principles of political perfectionism based on the content of his work "Schopenhauer as Educator," which Rawls condemns as inherently undemocratic and elitist. It highlights a different reading of the passages on which Rawls and Cavell base their political and moral perfectionist interpretations of Nietzsche.