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Nietzsche – The Ideologist of Life

Summary/Abstract: Although Friedrich Nietzsche is well-known for his radical criticism of prejudices and idols that determined the traditional philosophy to a large extent, the author tries to show the ideological background of Nietzsche’s philosophy. It consists in having a one-sided concept of life. Life is the main idol to which the Dionysian thinker paid his tribute – this is the provocative thesis of the following essay. The author will show that Nietzsche overlooked the fact that the supposed „negative“ sides of life such as diseases or frailty are the constituent part of life, not his contradictory opposite, as he generalizes just the „positive“ traits as characteristic for the phenomenon of life. At least it will be drawn a parallel between Nietzsche’s philosophy of life and bioethics as a discipline which is rethinking the problems concerning the quality of life. Bioethics is also under the influence of the vitalistic ideology because it doesn’t scrutinize the problematic aspects of life itself. Therefore we must criticize the „idol of life“.

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