Abstract
In a note of 1884, Nietzsche comments the genesis of his own thought, identifying in it three turning points: the objection to teleology; the adhesion to mechanism (denying at the same time the matter); the body as common thread of philosophical inquiries. Nietzsche interpret the important debate that had developed in Germany between the 1830s and 1860s in the medical- physiological sphere, from which he extracts a few key inputs of criticism of some traditional concepts: individuality, esprit, matter, the self etc. The first questioning of philosophic and scientific teleology is carried out in a group of young notes on the vision of the organism included in Kant’s Critique of Judgment. For Nietzsche, the elimination of teleology has a practical rather than a theoretical value: it clears life and the world from the assumptions of moralization. But, at the same time, teleology also has a political value as it works as a controlling device of the forms of life.
Titolo tradotto del contributo | [Autom. eng. transl.] "If I think of my philosophical genealogy," Nietzsche. I: Life forms and aesthetics |
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Lingua originale | Italian |
pagine (da-a) | 165-190 |
Numero di pagine | 26 |
Rivista | RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEOSCOLASTICA |
Volume | CIX |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2017 |
Keywords
- body
- corpo
- forme di vita
- forms of life
- purpose
- scopo
- teleologia
- teleology