Participants will read through the full work and explore its themes through open discussion. To help make the seminar a convivial and ongoing conversation, participants are expected to attend all four sessions.

This activity is open to all Morrin Centre members regardless of experience with seminars or philosophy.

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Week 3 Themes
Promising and forgetting; causality and responsibility; memory => reason; guilt and punishment; power, pleasure and shame; suffering and indignation; debt => cunning; measurement/calculation; mercy; will to power; bad consciousness; the taming of man; inwardization of drives; pleasure in self-sacrifice; ancestral debt => god; desire for nothingness; twilight of the idols and the hammer of the gods.

The Facilitator
Greg Campbell trained as a pharmacist before returning to college to study philosophy and history of ideas. Having completed a Masters degree at Essex University in the UK and obtained his doctorate in philosophy from University College Dublin in Ireland, he undertook a post-doctorate at Columbia University, New York (aesthetics and politics in Adorno). During his studies, Greg continued to work part-time as a pharmacist. In addition to teaching a humanities course at Wilbur Smith College, Greg was also a stay-at-home dad for a while after moving to Chicago in 2014. Since moving to Quebec City in 2020, Greg has continued to work in the education sector.