NIETZSCHEAN TRAGIC OUTLOOK AS A CRITIQUE OF METAPHYSICS
NIETZSCHEAN TRAGIC OUTLOOK AS A CRITIQUE OF METAPHYSICS
Author(s): Józef L. KrakowiakSubject(s): Philosophy, History of Philosophy
Published by: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: tragic knowledge vs tragic outlook; critique of substantialism; will to power as description and relation rather than substance; Heraclitean metaphors versus the Stoic heaven without guilt
Summary/Abstract: In my taxonomy, the tragic outlook is one of four types of outlooks, beside organo-logical, mechanistic and personalistic. Its essence is the idea of non-integrity of being, non-integrity of man, and a dissonance between the quality-ridded scene of the beco-ming being and the creative actor. The tragic knowledge is a vital component part of the tragic outlook; it is inherent in Carl Jaspers and Christianity’s beliefs but as something transcended in the concept of salvation from the tragic. The Nietzschean challenge could be this “Be an affirming, creative way of life” upon seeing which the becoming “will not vomit.”
Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
- Issue Year: 2016
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 223-236
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English
- Content File-PDF
