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Luck and ethics -- Tragedy : fragility and ambition. Aeschylus and practical conflict ; Sophocles' Antigone : conflict, vision, and simplification -- Plato : goodness without fragility? The Protagoras : a science of practical reasoning ; Interlude I : Plato's anti-tragic theater ; The Republic : true value and the standpoint of perfection ; The speech of Alcibiades : a reading of the Symposium ; 'This story isn't true' : madness, reason, and recantation in the Phaedrus -- Aristotle : the fragility of the good human life. Saving Aristotle's appearances ; Rational animals and the explanation of action ; Non-scientific deliberation ; The vulnerability of the good human life : activity and disaster ; The vulnerability of the good human life : relational goods ; Appendix to pt. III : human and divine ; Interlude 2 : luck and the tragic emotions ; Epilogue : tragedy ; The betrayal of convention : a reading of Euripides' Hecuba.

pt. 1. The Path to Nihilism. Ch. 1. The Humanistic Tradition. I. Birth of a Philologist. II. The Humanistic Tradition. III. The Origins of Humanism. IV. Humanism and Philosophy. V. Humanism and Liberalism. VI. The Ethics of Humanism. VII. Humanism Under Threat. Ch. 2. The Historical Method. I. Historicism. II. The Empirical Foundations of Historicism. III. Varieties of Historicism. Ch. 3. Nietzsche's Concept of "Culture" I. Weltanschauung-Historicism. II. Historicism and Relativism. III. Nietzsche's Mature Theory of the Weltanschauung. IV. Wittgenstein Contra Nietzsche. Ch. 4. Farewell to Reason. I. Nietzsche on Contemporary Historiography. II. Romantic Historiography. III. Doubts About Philology. IV. Wagner on Historicism. V. Nietzsche Begins to Criticize Historicism. VI. Nietzsche Against Scholarly Values. VII. The Philology of the Future. VIII. Nietzsche's Critique of "Truth" -- pt. 2. Dionysus Versus the Crucified. Ch. 5. The Birth of Tragedy.