Nietzsche's Philosophy (Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers)

Nietzsche's Philosophy (Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers)

Eugen Fink

Language: English

Pages: 194

ISBN: 0826459986

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Nietzsche's Philosophy traces the passionate development of Nietzsche's thought from the aestheticism of The Birth of Tragedy through to the late doctrines of the "will to power" and "eternal return".Inspired by the phenomenological method of Edmund Husserl and by the work of Martin Heidegger, Fink exposes the central themes of Nietzsche's philosophy, revealing the philosopher who experiences thinking as a fate and who ultimately searches for an expression of his own ontological experience in a negative theology.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nietzsche's second period. This commences suddenly and appears to be a sudden interruption of the original path of thought or even a radical turn. Nietzsche appears to deny everything he has asserted so far. He destroys what he worshipped and worships what he destroyed. His positions seem to be inverted. However, it is a question whether the second period signifies as it were simply a new, opposing world-view of the thinker extinguishing the earlier motives of his thought, or whether it

adjusted in life. The will to equality is accordingly only the impotent yearning of the weak for power. Nietzsche attempts to reveal here that the apparent idea of justice is merely a frustrated will to power concealing itself while abusing the appearance of virtue and moral honesty in order to succeed. The ordinary notions of justice harbour revenge. The tarantula weaves its web and chokes life in it. Nietzsche points here already to the big theme of a 'master and slave morality' which is going

of the Artist' aesthetic. On the contrary: Nietzsche expresses his fundamental vision of being in aesthetic categories. This lends a romantic character to The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche calls it a 'metaphysics of the artist'. Art achieves supremacy. The world is understood through art and in relation to it. In this context art is not only, as Nietzsche puts it, 'the genuine metaphysical activity of man', but, more importantly, a metaphysical revelation of being in its entirety. Only the

than the reflection of metaphysics which posits an authentic, true and real existence beyond nature (physis). Metaphysically conceived being is exactly what Nietzsche opposes in the concept of'God'. The abolition of transcendence is the active consequence of the death of God. The death of God can accordingly become the dawn of the earth as in Zamthustra. We must understand that Nietzsche attacks a form of ontology when he refers to God and that the passion of his dispute with Christianity is not

religion, morality and philosophy that are ways of human self-alienation, self-denial and self-forgetting constitutes a human apology on account of the destruction of these attitudes. The human justification takes the place of a theodicy. Man requires a justification by the thinker because he created the Gods and submitted himself to the servitude of his own inventions. The fundamental meaning of his critique and of the highest values so far is expressed by Nietzsche in a beautiful and clear way

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