{"id":14396,"date":"2020-05-07T11:06:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T15:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=14396"},"modified":"2020-06-23T14:37:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T18:37:51","slug":"paul-katsafanas","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/profiles\/paul-katsafanas\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Katsafanas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>I work on ethics, moral psychology, and nineteenth-century philosophy. \u00a0If you want an introduction to my work on Nietzschean flourishing and my approach to moral psychology,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/316am.site123.me\/articles\/nietzschean-flourishing?c=end-times-archive%E2%80%8B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this interview\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>with me is a good place to start.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I&#8217;m currently working on the relationships between normative inarticulacy, meaning, nihilism, fanaticism, and sacred values. \u00a0My paper\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/people.bu.edu\/pkatsa\/Fanaticism.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Fanaticism and Sacred Values&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>is a good introduction to these topics; it argues that fanaticism arises from a particular type of psychological and evaluative fragility. \u00a0Another paper,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/people.bu.edu\/pkatsa\/FugitivePleasure.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Fugitive Pleasure and the Meaningful Life,&#8221;<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0discusses Nietzsche&#8217;s view on the connection between sacred values, nihilism, and happiness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Most of my previous work has focused on topics at the interface of ethics and philosophy of mind, including the way in which normative claims might be justified; the nature of self-consciousness; the nature of agency; the notion of drive; and the concepts of free agency and unified agency.\u00a0<span>I address these topics in part by mining the work of certain eighteenth- and nineteenth-century philosophers.\u00a0 I draw especially on the work of Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, arguing that by appropriating and developing aspects of their accounts, we can gain insight into the above topics.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As these remarks may indicate, I treat the history of philosophy not merely as a subject of antiquarian interest, but as a wellspring of ideas containing the resources to shape debates currently at the forefront of our field.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16690,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/14396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/14396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16168,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/14396\/revisions\/16168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}