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(2009) A treatise of legal philosophy and general jurisprudence 9-10, Dordrecht, Springer.
The notion of "philosophy of law" is deeply problematical in the thought of Nietzsche, since all philosophy (generally) is conceived by him as an ex post facto rationalization of a deeper psychological truth: "Gradually it has become clear to me," Nietzsche says in Beyond Good and Evil, "what every great philosophy so far has been," namely a "personal confession" and "involuntary memoir" in which "desires of the heart" have been "filtered and made abstract," and then "defended with reasons sought after the fact" (Nietzsche 1954c, sec. 5).
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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2964-5_24
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Riley, P. (2009)., Nietzsche as a philosopher of law, in E. Pattaro, D. Canale, H. Hofmann & P. Riley (eds.), A treatise of legal philosophy and general jurisprudence 9-10, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 639-648.
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