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A Critical Exploration of Husserl's Notion of the 'Natural Attitude' In this essay I will seek to explore Husserl’s conception of the ‘natural attitude’ and how this attitude reveals itself. Once this important phenomenological position is outlined it will then be possible, using a selection of work from another 20th century thinker Willard Van Ormand Quine, to offer a brief critical analysis of Husserl’s claim that it is possible to reveal and subsequently study an attitude which is pre-judicative such as that which is offered to his reader in his work ‘Ideas’. The Distinction Between Gregarious/Idiosyncratic in Klossowski’s ‘Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle' A critical disscussion of the key concepts put forward within Klossowski's work 'Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle'. In particular the fundamental distinction between 'the levelling power of gregarious thought and the erectile power of particular cases' [2005:5]. A first move towards the development of a groundless ethics. A Review of Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality A review of Nietzsche's thoughts on the development of morality within his work 'On the Genealogy of Morality', from the initial manifestation of the moral attitude through the slave revolt to its sophisticated development within the ascetic priest.