THREE MEN IN A BOAT: NIETZSCHE, ADORNO AND CIORAN. ON TRANSMUTATION OF VALUES
THREE MEN IN A BOAT: NIETZSCHE, ADORNO AND CIORAN. ON TRANSMUTATION OF VALUES

Summary/Abstract: Friedrich Nietzsche was the thinker who had lived with intensity nihilism until the end. As “Prophet of nihilism“, he managed to overcome it. To follow this difficult author beyond nihilism and skepticism, it is necessary to free ourselves of preconceptions, because there is already his philosopher profile that goes beyond good and evil, and whose features related to the reception of truth by pulses of living, by feelings and sensitivity intermediate forms of the will, anounced the priority of the the senses against the reason. The direction of nihilism, and still poor image we have about Theodor Adorno ( extremely complex because of his writings addressed primarily to an elite), showed a similar background (the „life world“) for large echoes derriving from similar affinities in the most amasing fragments, so full of lessons for our times. From a similar stylistic direction, Emil Cioran completes the picture of "Three Men in a Boat" indicating the Styx shores. But is this “transmutation of values“, a shift and a transfer from one bank to another of Styx? My proposal is to examine together, at least in part, the treasure from their boat, always in danger of sinking due to their weight, as actually it remained from ancient times: the burden of knowledge.

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