Pharmaceutics III

Abstract

This third and final chapter in the cycle looking at Kofman’s Nietzsche and the Philosophical Stage (1979) examines three further pieces from her book. These are ‘Stoicism’s Comedy’, ‘Figures of the Saviour’, and ‘The Evil Eye’. In the first, Stoicism is given as an example of the way tragic experience or life has been traduced philosophically; this school of ancient thought and its modern inheritors are criticized for their appeal to nature. Debate over how to live is also at the heart of Kofman’s critique of Epicureanism which we then move on to examine. The chapter closes with a more positive model, insofar as the third piece examined proposes a perspectivism based on a multiplicity of viewpoints as a way of moving past philosophico-pharmaceutical models and instead approaching life in a way conducive to health.