Engagement with Rival Philosophers

From Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche directly engages and parodies Kant's synthetic a priori, the Stoic 'live according to nature,' Plato's invention of pure spirit, and Schopenhauer's metaphysics of will.
Part 1, Section 11

Mockery of Kant's 'faculty' answer for synthetic a priori judgments--'by means of a means (faculty).'

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Part 1, Section 9

Attack on the Stoics' 'live according to nature'--actually a tyrannical imposition of their morality onto nature.

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Preface

Plato's invention of the pure spirit and the Good as such--worst, most durable, most dangerous of all errors.

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Part 1, Section 19

Critique of Schopenhauer's simplified concept of 'will.'

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