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Instinct And Transcendence

Posted on:2006-07-06Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y H ShuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360155456401Subject:Foreign philosophy
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Nietzsche was an ideologist who regarded philosophy as a survival way and meditated the life's significances all his life. Today his idea is still an argumentative focus. Radically speaking, modernistic philosophy even entire philosophy is a theory of human. The starting points and the basic establishment of Nietzsche 's philosophy are based on his human viewpoints, which are the keys to weight the essence of his philosophy, the surveyor's rods to measure his history position and also a witness to its modernity.Nietzsche's human nature views as well as his entire philosophy are not systematic. So long as we embed its implication, we will discover that Nietzsche took the being-world-view as the premise, took Perspective principle as the tool, took realistic world as the basic point, took life as the angle of view and saw humans as the existence of instincts and surmounts. It was a creation and rebellion. Nietzsche thought that the traditional philosophy regarding human as an rational and divine existence, is a purely " useful" figment. In essence, it is the objection toward life. Nietzsche thought that human is the carnal existence first; the spirit unified by life is a carnal creation and tool. Power and will constitute human essence, as well as the world, but since it is a sensitive and rational power ( existent principle ) to pursue the growth and exaltations continuously, so human is also a surmounting existence. Being yourself, and superman become the inevitable result of his logical progress of human nature. Nietzsche's human nature views critically inherited the traditional human nature thoughts ( Mainly about the ancient Greece and German classic philosophies of the earlier period ) and also reflected human's development in his ages, to some degree, it is the portrayal of his personality. All of his entire philosophy thoughts, such as the nihilism, the will-to-power, the superman and esthetics, the morals and...
Keywords/Search Tags:Human nature, Instinct, Transcendence, Will-to-power, Superman
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