Nietzsche on becoming a self worth being
Abstract |
Nietzsche urges us not to embrace any one perspective of the world, at the same time as he vociferously and repeatedly attacks whole ways of life. These two aspects of Nietzsche's work seem to be in tension with one another--what perspective allows Nietzsche to be so opinionated? Nietzsche insists that all experience is from a perspective and that there is no inherently privileged perspective. This is the "perspectivist" Nietzsche that Derrida focuses on. Yet not only does Nietzsche insist on denigrating the perspective of others, he seems to acknowledge that such attacks are not very worthwhile if they too are just from another perspective. Thus thinkers like Schacht argue that there is a privileged perspective in Nietzsche, and that this privilege is unique because of the relationship it has with the "natural" and the "healthy." The Gay Science presents a Nietzsche who integrates these two seemingly incompatible positions, for in this work Nietzsche makes an exciting synthesis possible through the idea of the eternal recurrence and through his attack on the unitary self. Nietzsche urges us to create ourselves as affirmers, but the stance of affirmation is not in itself a perspective; rather, a central characteristic of affirmers is the ability to embrace numerous perspectives.
|
Keywords | No keywords specified (fix it) |
Categories | (categorize this paper) |
Options |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Download options
References found in this work BETA
Trans. Anscombe GE M.Ludwig Wittgenstein - forthcoming - Philosophical Investigations., Upper Saddle River, Nj: Prentice Hall.
Citations of this work BETA
No citations found.
Similar books and articles
Nietzsche and the Perspective of Life.Charlie Huenemann - 2013 - In Manuel Dries (ed.), Nietzsche on consciousness and the embodied mind. Walter de Gruyter.
The Art of Reading as a Way of Life: On Nietzsche's Truth.Daniel T. O'Hara - 2009 - Northwestern University Press.
Beyond Good and Evil? A Buddhist Critique of Nietzsche.David Loy - 1996 - Asian Philosophy 6 (1):37 – 57.
Nietzsche's Brave New World of Force: On Nietzsche's 1873 "Time Atom Theory" Fragment and the Matter of Boscovich's Influence on Nietzsche.Keith Ansell Pearson - 2000 - Journal of Nietzsche Studies 20:5-33.
Nietzsche's Life Sentence: Coming to Terms with Eternal Recurrence.Lawrence J. Hatab - 2004 - Routledge.
Nietzsche, Contingency, and the Vacuity of Politics.Robert Guay - 2009 - In Jeffrey A. Metzger (ed.), Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Philosophy of the Future. Continuum.
Nietzsche on Time and History (Review).Wolter Hartog - 2010 - Journal of Nietzsche Studies 39 (1):89-92.
Metaethics and Nihilism in Reginster's The Affirmation of Life.Nadeem J. Z. Hussain - 2012 - Journal of Nietzsche Studies 43 (1):99-117.
Analytics
Added to PP index
2011-01-07
Total views
25 ( #455,788 of 2,507,011 )
Recent downloads (6 months)
1 ( #417,155 of 2,507,011 )
2011-01-07
Total views
25 ( #455,788 of 2,507,011 )
Recent downloads (6 months)
1 ( #417,155 of 2,507,011 )
How can I increase my downloads?
Downloads