The New Oxford Dictionary of English includes an acceptation of the adjective “agonistic” that makes it appropriate to describe the conception of education in Nietzsche ́s writings from the so called “period of youth” or “first period”, that is, the period which ended in 1876 with the publication of the fourth and last untimely meditation, entitled Richard Wagner in Bayreuth. This acceptation, w...

Neste trabalho, pretende-se tecer um paralelo entre o filme de curta metragem “Meu Amigo Nietzsche”, Fáuston da Silva, e as formas mediação informação usadas no para alcançar a apropriação dos conceitos obra Nietzsche “Assim falou Zaratustra”. O analisado foi gravado na Cidade Estrutural, periferia Brasília, conta história Lucas, menino que segundo sua educadora, apresenta déficit aprendizado e...

The title of this paper raises two questions, each of which I would like to address in turn. The first question is: What exactly is an immanent ethics (as opposed to an ethics that appeal to transcendence)? The second question is: What is the philosophical question of desire? My ultimate question concerns the link between these two issues: What relation does an immanent ethics have to the quest...

This essay analyzes the connection between Nietzsche’s philosophy and contemporary transhumanism, on the basis of his Apollonian-Dionysian dichotomy and how it articulated in lateRomantic European culture. Nietzsche’s personal insanity, and the morbidity of the Romantic Movement in general, can serve as a warning of what transhumanism might become if it overemphasizes individualism. Nietzsche’s...

A body so light, it floatedacross wind-whipped wavesand did not sink. So full of life,it survived empty forty days,no wheat for nights.A blindingly pure,its hands purified other bodies.This drew the first sunrise,still wept at a friend's last breath.This light was floggedand trapped and displayed.Had life squeezed out throughstripes. Suffered bruises andis still scarred from woundsso I could be...

A Genealogy of the 14i 11 : A Comparison of the ~lo rks of Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche Author: Jane Elizabeth Edwards Thesis Director: Dr. Hugh West Degree: Master of Arts in History University of Richmond, 1986 This study investigates the development of the notion of man's will upon which Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche based their theories. Although this topic had been virtually negle...

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a remarkable philologist-philosopher while remaining in a condition of ill-health. Issues about his wandering/disruptive behavior that might be a consequence and/or protection against his cognitive decline and multifaceted disease are presented. The life complex that raises speculations about its etiology is constituted by: insight, creativity and wandering b...

The renown of “order of rank”(Rangordnung), as a term of art, suffers in comparison to some of Nietzsche’s more famous locutions. Nietzsche nevertheless makes two intriguing claims about order of rank: that it is the key to the very task of philosophy, and that we inevitably misunderstand it. There are at least three reasons why an inquiry into Nietzsche’s notion of “order of rank” should be fr...