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Gyvenimo Apologija Nietzsches Filosofijoje
Apologia of Life in Nietzsche’s Philosophy

Author(s): Vaida Asakavičiūtė
Subject(s): Epistemology, 19th Century Philosophy, Existentialism, Hermeneutics
Published by: Visuomeninė organizacija »LOGOS«
Keywords: Life; Superman; non-classical philosophy; philosophy of life; woman; will to power; becoming;

Summary/Abstract: The article is intended to discussion of life apologia of important non-classical philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The leading attention is focussed on various connotations of the notion of “life”, of its origins and historical metamorphoses in development of ideas of non-classical philosophy. Appealing to fundamental texts of Nietzsche the author highlights some functions of the term “life” in the whole of standpoints of the philosopher and exhibits basic aspects of its interpretation. In the article the author pays particular attention to relations of life, as unique exsistential experience that is heavily defined with words, with the rationalistic mind celebrated by the classical metaphysical philosophy. At the end of research is the Superman, one of central ideas of the conception of Nietzsche’s philosophy, as a prophet of the new form of our life.

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 55
  • Page Range: 203-210
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Lithuanian