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Nietzsche i Kierkegaard – wspólna wizja nowożytnego podmiotu
Nietzsche and Kierkegaard – a common vision of the modern subject

Author(s): Michał Krot
Subject(s): Philosophy, History of Philosophy, 19th Century Philosophy, Contemporary Philosophy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: subject; Nietzsche; Kierkegaard; Heidegger; superman; knight of faith; metaphysics

Summary/Abstract: The task of this work is to make a comparison of subjectivity in the philosophy of Frederic Nietzsche and Soren Kierkegaard in the context of modern metaphysics. It turns out that despite the fact that our XIX century philosophers were trying to go beyond the definition of modern subject by using two separate methods, their thought is marked with similar assumption. It is natural that their projects did not succeed in breaking down the modern metaphysics, but instead it resulted in bringing to an end the possibilities that these metaphysics enabled. This end means a radical defining of a subject as the one who "came out of Matrix" - he is no longer obliged to follow any outside rules. He invents the rules on his own and no one can have an authority over his deeds. Following further consideration it turns out that similarity of two titular philosophers is a solidly grounded thesis and a reference of these conclusions to metaphysics enables us to take up a new look at the shape of modern times. As a result a new philosophy is possible: it is a philosophy which doesn't consider a superman or knight of faith as a culmination of it's thinking, but as a beginning of it.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: XXXI
  • Page Range: 94-111
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish