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Some Final Replies to Owen and Meyer
Steven Pittz offers concluding thoughts on Nietzsche, spiritual freedom, and liberalism.
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Will a Free Spirit Be a Liberal Spirit?
Matthew Meyer responds in our discussion on Nietzsche, the free spirit, and liberalism.
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The Free Spirit and the Vocations
David Owen asks about whether the free spirit can still exist in modern professional life, which is often tedious and dispiriting.
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To Matthew Meyer on Nietzsche’s Relationship to the Liberal Order
Steven Pittz responds to Matthew Meyer: Nietzsche was no liberal, but many of his ideas can help liberalism anyway.
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To David Owen on Free Spirits, the Liberal Temperament, and Liberal Education
Prof. Steven Pittz discusses Nietzsche and the free spirit with Prof. David Owen.
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Are Free Spirits Too Free for the Liberal Order?
The free spirit--unbound by social norms and received ideas--may or may not be an asset to liberalism, says Matthew Meyer.
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What Use Has Society for a Free Spirit?
Steven Pittz commends Nietzsche's ideal of the free spirit as one that strengthens a liberal polity and flourishes within it.
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Liberalism and the Free Spirit
Friedrich Nietzsche's ideal of the "free spirit" offers a distinct vision of what freedom could be. What does it offer a liberal society?