By Joan Jacobs Brumberg
ISBN-10: 0786753366
ISBN-13: 9780786753369
Most american citizens regard "kids who kill" as a latest phenomenon, however the tragic story of "Kansas Charley" indicates that violent boys are a long-standing challenge. Charles Miller was once a seventeen–year–old orphan who was once hanged in Wyoming in 1892 for a bad double homicide devoted whilst he was once basically fifteen. This actual tale takes us right into a global of poverty and abuse, revealing the folk and locations that formed Charley's habit, his crime and his punishment. the writer brings to existence a thought–provoking bankruptcy within the background of the juvenile justice system.
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177 Nietzsche, Der Wille zur Macht, 461. 178 G. Simmel, Schopenhauer und Nietzsche, in: Gesamtausgabe Band 10, 1995, S. 188 f. 174 175 36 1. Kapitel: Die Genialität der Gerechtigkeit wäre, darauf hin, woher er seinerseits seine Gabe der psychologischen Beobachtung empfangen hat: es sind, wie nach dem in der Einleitung Gesagten nahe liegt, einmal mehr die französischen Moralisten: „Warum liest man nicht einmal die großen Meister der französischen Sentenz mehr? 182 2. Individualität und Typisierung Es ist gerade die Verbindung zwischen radikaler Individualität 183 und der immer zugleich auch bestehenden Gabe der Typisierung,184 die Nietzsche, Menschliches, Allzumenschliches, I, 35.
16 1. Kapitel: Die Genialität der Gerechtigkeit 2. Skepsis gegenüber System und vorgeblicher Orthodoxie Die Wertschätzung der wissenschaftlichen Methoden relativiert Nietzsches Skepsis gegenüber den Systematikern. 84 78 Nietzsche, Götzen-Dämmerung oder Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophiert, 1889, Sprüche und Pfeile, 26. 79 In der Einleitung; siehe auch den dortigen Verweis auf V. Gerhardt, Friedrich Nietzsche, 1992, S. 26. -J. Yang, S. 5, von den „ständigen vergeblichen Versuchen, ein systematisches Werk zu schaffen“, ohne dies freilich zu belegen.
Denn für Nietzsche „sind Lust, Egoismus, Eitelkeit notwendig zur Erzeugung der moralischen Phänomene und ihrer höchsten Blüte, des Sinnes für Wahrheit und 96 Hervorhebung nur hier; siehe auch V. Gerhardt, Zum Begriff der Macht bei Friedrich Nietzsche, in: Philosophische Perspektiven 7 (1981) 73. 97 Vgl. Nietzsche, Menschliches, Allzumenschliches, I, 52: „Bei allen großen Betrügern ist ein Vorgang bemerkenswert, dem sie ihre Macht verdanken. “ Ähnlich Nietzsche, Der Wille zur Macht, 975, der im Zusammenhang mit dem „Glauben an sein Recht“ von „Inspirations-Täuschungen“ spricht.
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