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Nietzsche's Thought Of Epistemology

Posted on:2006-07-07Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y L JinFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360155951981Subject:Marxist theory and ideological and political education
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Nietzsche, German philosopher in the latter of 19th century, was one VIP in the course when western modern philosophy transform into modern philosophy. Nietzsche opposited traditional rationalism and advocated irrationalism, which have an extensive and far-reaching impact on later age. Though the descendant studies Nietzsche numerously, the studies on Nietzsche's epistemology thought is more weak, therefore, it is essential and meaningful to study the basic thought of Nietzsche's epistemology further and evaluate it with Marxism view practically.The full text is divided into three major parts:First part —Forming of Nietzsche's epistemology thought, including the historical background and thought terms in the forming of Nietzsche's epistemology, the criticism and inheritance to forefathers' epistemology thought Nietzsche's epistemology thought appeared in the social background when the capitalist political economy was developed further, capitalist system established further, rationalism, as capitalist class' theory weapon against feudalism, began to expose its drawbacks; the creation of quantum mechanics, the discovery of dissipation structure, romantic movement, etc. Offer science and culture terms for Nietzsche's epistemology thought, and forefathers' generous irrational ideas also provide the theory origin.Second part —Basic thought of Nietzsche's epistemology. Summarize as six respects: Target, essence, power, course, method of knowledge, and essence of truth. In Nietzsche's view, people can only know surface world, that is, the world brought up personally, and not to know the world of a power will, that is, essential world; The essence of knowledge is a tool of power will; The passion, will, desire are the motive force of knowledge; The course of knowledge is a kind of unconscious spontaneous behavior, the essence of the truth is the subjective appraisal; All knowledge is explanation, people experience the world in dream and drunk.The third part —Nietzsche's epistemology thought evaluation and analysis. At first point out that Nietzsche's epistemology is idealistic in essence, because it denied the reality of the things, denied knowledge is reflection of objective things, denied objective truth; Secondly point out it is a kind of irrational doctrine thought, such as regarding power will as the noumenon of the world, emphasize the dominating role with instinctive desire, think the intuition, inspiration, insight is the real means to reach objective knowledge; Finally, point out that Nietzsche's epistemology has some...
Keywords/Search Tags:Nietzsche, Epistemology, Irrationalism
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