Nietzschean Tragic Outlook as a Critique of Metaphysics

• Authors: Krakowiak Józef L.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In my taxonomy, the tragic outlook is one of four types of outlooks, beside organo-logical, mechanistic and personalistic. Its essence is the idea of non-integrity of being, non-integrity of man, and a dissonance between the quality-ridded scene of the beco-ming being and the creative actor. The tragic knowledge is a vital component part of the tragic outlook; it is inherent in Carl Jaspers and Christianity’s beliefs but as something transcended in the concept of salvation from the tragic. The Nietzschean challenge could be this “Be an affirming, creative way of life” upon seeing which the becoming “will not vomit.”

Keywords

EN

tragic knowledge vs tragic outlook; critique of substantialism; will to power as description and relation rather than substance; Heraclitean metaphors versus the Stoic heaven without guilt; self as a system of social drives; philosophical fear of the tragic

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 223-236

Contributors

author

Krakowiak Józef L.

• Warsaw University Institute of Philosophy. Affiliation: The Higher School of Health Education and Social Science, Kamińskiego 29, 90-229 Łódź, Poland