Narziss

This is my primary, academic site where I publish regarding both Nietzsche and action theory. For my peripheral site where I read Nietzsche, comment, and invite your comments, please visit: http://verhexung.com.

My name is Carlos.  I grew up in a Roman Catholic family.  Nevertheless, I’ve been an atheist from a young age.  

My repudiation of god is a repudiation of a belief in a sentient, objective source of moral fact.  I don’t believe there can be an objective source of moral fact.  If god were the source of some imperative, then the closest thing to a god I have is death, and that is because death calls one to reflect on one’s goals and act with intensity.  

I am interested in action theory; the structure of agency; and in the nature of both the drives and the passions in practical reasoning.  I am also interested in normativity, metaethics, moral psychology, and philosophical psychology.  My historical interests are in 19th-century German philosophy, especially in those figures and movements who influenced and were influenced by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.

Now, the topic I am presently focusing on is how our non-conscious drives and our conscious values tie into the etiology of our actions.  I am also interested in Nietzsche’s positive ethical picture and how to derive normative authority (via, e.g., constitutivism) from a Nietzschean structure of agency and action (esp. as it has been laid out by Prof. Paul Katsafanas).

I really enjoy film as a medium to articulate ideas and feelings.  My favorite directors (and films) are Ingmar Bergman (Persona, Cries and Whispers, The Virgin Spring), Michael Haneke (Caché, White Ribbon, The Seventh Continent), Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan), Lars von Trier (Antichrist, Dogville), P.T. Anderson (There Will Be Blood, Magnolia), and Giorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth).

My favorite music genre, favored for its long, instrumental crescendos, that welt with soreness, is post-rock, encompassing such bands as Explosions in the Sky, Mono, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mogwai, and Yndi Halda.  My favorite classical composer is Rachmaninoff.