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Filozofia (Philosophy), 2014
Nietzsche's famous dictum "Become what you are" is one of the most difficult aspects of his philo... more Nietzsche's famous dictum "Become what you are" is one of the most difficult aspects of his philosophy. Although Nehamas' (2001) influential interpretation elucidates how we can understand the apparent contradiction between being and becoming inherent in it, it does so only at the price of divorcing the dictum from the larger concerns of Nietzsche's thought. Therefore, I will interpret this dictum in the light of Schopenhauer as Educator and its statement that "your true nature lies not concealed deep within you, but immeasurably high above you". I aim to show that by understanding Nietzsche's conception of human nature as it appears in the statement above we can grasp "becoming what one is" as inextricably bound together with his concepts of education and nobility and with his project of individual transformation, and thus with the core of his thought.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Dec 15, 2022
En este artículo se propone una nueva interpretación de Richard Wagner en Bayreuth (WB): lejos de... more En este artículo se propone una nueva interpretación de Richard Wagner en Bayreuth (WB): lejos de ser un artefacto de devoción juvenil de parte de Nietzsche por Wagner, el texto está más allá de cualquier idolatría y utiliza el arte de Wagner como vehículo para una renovación de la educación musical del tipo propuesto por Platón en la República y las Leyes. Después de documentar la independencia intelectual que tenía Nietzsche de Wagner ya en el período de WB, se discuten las nociones de 'sentimiento correcto' y 'sentimiento incorrecto', aparentemente tomadas de Wagner, pero utilizadas por Nietzsche de una manera muy diferente. La noción de 'sentimiento correcto' sirve entonces de puente para una lectura de la educación musical de Platón y para demostrar la presencia de una concepción muy análoga en WB. Luego se muestra cómo los efectos de esta imaginada educación musical son parte integral de una humanidad verdaderamente liberada, tal y como es descrita por Nietzsche en el capítulo final de WB. Se concluye destacando varios momentos de la educación musical desarrollada más tarde por Nietzsche bajo los auspicios de su inmoralismo, y sugiriendo posibles vías para futuras investigaciones.
Modern and Postmodern Crises of Symbolic Structures, 2020
Nietzsche-Studien, 2020
The problem of history in Nietzsche’s second Unfashionable Observation is best approached through... more The problem of history in Nietzsche’s second Unfashionable Observation is best approached through that which it is supposed to serve: life, more specifically human life. I argue that Nietzsche presents an oblique but nevertheless complete articulation of the nature of the human soul as consisting of two basic parts, of desiring (the unhistorical) and memory (the historical): of a multiplicity of desires that struggle for domination over the others, and which express themselves in more complex ways through memory-based structures such as conscience. I then discuss some implications of this conception. First, I interpret the significance of the useful kinds of history: rather than being different modes of historical science, they are much more basic modes of practical relating to the matters of our world (especially to other humans and their ways of life) that are external to us both temporally and spatially. Second, I discuss the particular kinds of desires which underpin the three u...
Labyrinth
Jan Patočka became politically active for the first time as a spokesperson of the dissident movem... more Jan Patočka became politically active for the first time as a spokesperson of the dissident movement Charter 77. In this capacity he wrote several essays, the first of which, entitled "On the Matters of The Plastic People of the Universe and DG 307", I interpret as the explanation and justification of his turn toward political engagement. The following article is a reading of Patočka's essay that pays particular attention to a peculiar formal feature of the essay – namely that it's presented as a reversal of Dostoevsky's short story "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man". In reversing this story, Patočka shows us the two basic ways of human life and explains his political engagement as an action taken on behalf of the properly human way of life, which he calls "life in truth" or "the responsible life". The purpose of his political engagement thus wasn't defending human rights, but defending life in truth, to which human rights provide...
Labyrinth
Jan Patočka became politically active for the first time as a spokesperson of the dissident movem... more Jan Patočka became politically active for the first time as a spokesperson of the dissident movement Charter 77. In this capacity he wrote several essays, the first of which, entitled "On the Matters of The Plastic People of the Universe and DG 307", I interpret as the explanation and justification of his turn toward political engagement. The following article is a reading of Patočka's essay that pays particular attention to a peculiar formal feature of the essay – namely that it's presented as a reversal of Dostoevsky's short story "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man". In reversing this story, Patočka shows us the two basic ways of human life and explains his political engagement as an action taken on behalf of the properly human way of life, which he calls "life in truth" or "the responsible life". The purpose of his political engagement thus wasn't defending human rights, but defending life in truth, to which human rights provide...
Artículos by Jozef Majernik
19, 2022
Número temático- Nietzsche una Filosofía Intempestiva
Filozofia (Philosophy), 2014
Nietzsche's famous dictum "Become what you are" is one of the most difficult aspects of his philo... more Nietzsche's famous dictum "Become what you are" is one of the most difficult aspects of his philosophy. Although Nehamas' (2001) influential interpretation elucidates how we can understand the apparent contradiction between being and becoming inherent in it, it does so only at the price of divorcing the dictum from the larger concerns of Nietzsche's thought. Therefore, I will interpret this dictum in the light of Schopenhauer as Educator and its statement that "your true nature lies not concealed deep within you, but immeasurably high above you". I aim to show that by understanding Nietzsche's conception of human nature as it appears in the statement above we can grasp "becoming what one is" as inextricably bound together with his concepts of education and nobility and with his project of individual transformation, and thus with the core of his thought.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Dec 15, 2022
En este artículo se propone una nueva interpretación de Richard Wagner en Bayreuth (WB): lejos de... more En este artículo se propone una nueva interpretación de Richard Wagner en Bayreuth (WB): lejos de ser un artefacto de devoción juvenil de parte de Nietzsche por Wagner, el texto está más allá de cualquier idolatría y utiliza el arte de Wagner como vehículo para una renovación de la educación musical del tipo propuesto por Platón en la República y las Leyes. Después de documentar la independencia intelectual que tenía Nietzsche de Wagner ya en el período de WB, se discuten las nociones de 'sentimiento correcto' y 'sentimiento incorrecto', aparentemente tomadas de Wagner, pero utilizadas por Nietzsche de una manera muy diferente. La noción de 'sentimiento correcto' sirve entonces de puente para una lectura de la educación musical de Platón y para demostrar la presencia de una concepción muy análoga en WB. Luego se muestra cómo los efectos de esta imaginada educación musical son parte integral de una humanidad verdaderamente liberada, tal y como es descrita por Nietzsche en el capítulo final de WB. Se concluye destacando varios momentos de la educación musical desarrollada más tarde por Nietzsche bajo los auspicios de su inmoralismo, y sugiriendo posibles vías para futuras investigaciones.
Modern and Postmodern Crises of Symbolic Structures, 2020
Nietzsche-Studien, 2020
The problem of history in Nietzsche’s second Unfashionable Observation is best approached through... more The problem of history in Nietzsche’s second Unfashionable Observation is best approached through that which it is supposed to serve: life, more specifically human life. I argue that Nietzsche presents an oblique but nevertheless complete articulation of the nature of the human soul as consisting of two basic parts, of desiring (the unhistorical) and memory (the historical): of a multiplicity of desires that struggle for domination over the others, and which express themselves in more complex ways through memory-based structures such as conscience. I then discuss some implications of this conception. First, I interpret the significance of the useful kinds of history: rather than being different modes of historical science, they are much more basic modes of practical relating to the matters of our world (especially to other humans and their ways of life) that are external to us both temporally and spatially. Second, I discuss the particular kinds of desires which underpin the three u...
Labyrinth
Jan Patočka became politically active for the first time as a spokesperson of the dissident movem... more Jan Patočka became politically active for the first time as a spokesperson of the dissident movement Charter 77. In this capacity he wrote several essays, the first of which, entitled "On the Matters of The Plastic People of the Universe and DG 307", I interpret as the explanation and justification of his turn toward political engagement. The following article is a reading of Patočka's essay that pays particular attention to a peculiar formal feature of the essay – namely that it's presented as a reversal of Dostoevsky's short story "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man". In reversing this story, Patočka shows us the two basic ways of human life and explains his political engagement as an action taken on behalf of the properly human way of life, which he calls "life in truth" or "the responsible life". The purpose of his political engagement thus wasn't defending human rights, but defending life in truth, to which human rights provide...
Labyrinth
Jan Patočka became politically active for the first time as a spokesperson of the dissident movem... more Jan Patočka became politically active for the first time as a spokesperson of the dissident movement Charter 77. In this capacity he wrote several essays, the first of which, entitled "On the Matters of The Plastic People of the Universe and DG 307", I interpret as the explanation and justification of his turn toward political engagement. The following article is a reading of Patočka's essay that pays particular attention to a peculiar formal feature of the essay – namely that it's presented as a reversal of Dostoevsky's short story "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man". In reversing this story, Patočka shows us the two basic ways of human life and explains his political engagement as an action taken on behalf of the properly human way of life, which he calls "life in truth" or "the responsible life". The purpose of his political engagement thus wasn't defending human rights, but defending life in truth, to which human rights provide...
19, 2022
Número temático- Nietzsche una Filosofía Intempestiva