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The Human Naturalization

Posted on:2011-10-01Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:H Y SongFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115360305953841Subject:Foreign philosophy
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Focusing on the issues of human values, Nietzsche devoted his whole life to realizing an ultimate goal—how to cultivate a prototype of man with higher value. Brushing aside the evils of Nihilism caused by worthiness antitheses pursued by Platonism-Christianism, Nietzsche persisted that human should be naturalized in order to secure modern man from the decadence and insignificance.The meaning of nature, invested by Nietzsche, different from the one we understand as usual, does not refer to the pure objective and inorganic nature. Therefore, the naturalization of human implied that human did not need to resume the situation of original nature without the tracks of civilizations. Rather than, the nature was the subjective creativity in the man's highest degree. And that human naturalization endowed the unparalleled possibility of exalting human out of insignificance and mediocrity to mightiness, purity and modesty. It was the human nature oppressed by traditional philosophy and Christian cultures that premised such human upgrading. Hence, only the deconstruction of dogmatism and building up revaluation could make such splendid human nature and self-surpassing possible.Anciently, deconstructing criticism on traditional value by Nietzsche got more attentions whereas the rare ones on his positive and constructive dimension. It was the efforts, resuming the distortion of human images formed by modern organizational system, from his incomplete watchwords that naturalized human.As is well known, God is the ultimate support and the end-result of spirit in the west and the belief to God has exalted their spirits and mind, on which the westerners has established their being and existence. Such belief once maintained their existence and set a natural barrier between them and nihility. With the advance of modern science and reasoning, such barrier has been shrunk. Nietzsche versioned nihility and realized the possibility of losing the living meaning for human being. In order to secure men from such grief, he resort the construction of artistic metaphysical to retrieve human existence between the beetle and the block. But when he realized that all idealism was poison and all traditional being system could be reestablished in the modern scientific and democratic society, what he could do was to point out the lie of"God"and the truth of nihility and expected men to make new alternative, braveness or destruction. Hence, living under the shadow of God equaled to waiting for future in vain.According to the philosophic renovation of his draft, human naturalization should include the efforts of perspectivism, the new morality of construction on the exceeding the opposition of traditional good and evil and the"Great Politics"on how to arrange the human relationships. Nietzsche's constructing blueprint, like the transparent bridge, reflected the antipathy of reasoning towards chaos and the moral simple mode of the inner world, both which are the two indispensable mainstays for human existence, whereas the"Great Politics"designs the new practical active rules for human as the bridge for human beings.First, orectic perspective takes place the traditional epistemology that holds the mechanical and rigid perspective, through which releases the multi and active explaining theory in order to path for the raising and fusing of man's perspectives. Nietzsche abandoned the divine teleology relied by traditional epistemology and the ideality of pure objective cognition. Furthermore, he revealed the restrictive mechanism of language and grammar in the process of traditional epistemology, just under which created the cognitive mode of subject and object, the duality between subject and object. Such mechanism attempted men to the practice of nihilism ultimately. Nietzsche regarded the cognition as the ineluctable limit of anthropocentrism and put forward idea that cognition equaled to explanation. But various explanations did own the same importance, the interpretative criterion could be judged by the degree of"the will to power". Nietzsche did not agree with skepticism and took the highest cognition as the integration of various different perspectives. Hence, the world could be known while knowing the world in such humanized world meant knowing human, our lust and nature.Second, the value of pure naturalism took place the moral value and furthermore established a paradise moral exceeding the opposition of good and evil. Philosophy was under the control of goodness since Plato, which regarded the more strong and natural lust in man's nature as the immoral and evil and required absolute suppression between each other. Nietzsche did not deny those moralities helpful to our existence but could not tolerate the halting in the minor moral narcissism. He consulted the pedigree of morality and discovered the moral came into being under some conditions, there existed two opposite types of moralities governing man's ethic activities in the history of moral. In his point of view, so far, it was the weak morality explaining man's ethic activities that prevailed and overturned the value criterion and insulted the strong in moral. The moral of sympathy and venom of Christianity became the prototype that he judged moral value because they, as the mainstream forms of moral in the modern society, together promoted the moral practice of nihilism. Beyond the perspective of traditional morality, Nietzsche positively promoted a new moral over the good and evil and endowed this to natural human beings who acted good or evil. Hence, good and evil coexisted and both pushed man to a stronger natural state under tensile force.Finally,"Great Politics"is Nietzsche's ultimate concern about humanity. His intention of de-charming epistemology and morality is to realize"Great Politics", the main characters of which, or some elites of human society, have been labeled as supermen, a new group of human beings going beyond the restrictions of self or morality rather than being the new idols replacing God. Supermen are just sound sleepers beside you and me; to facilitate the birth of Supermen, Nietzsche smashed the image of modern man. In a society of"Great Politics", future philosophers are elected as legislators, so that those potential supermen can be themselves."Great Politics", however, does not deny the existence of nobody, for they have their own value and meaning, and they maintain their rights to continue via eternal samsara, which, used by Nietzsche as a new principle to replace metaphysics and religion, selects and cultivates supermen in an instant and eliminates nobody in the same moment, so that human society would not die down in the utopian illusion and The dilemma of seeking equality when superman reaching the power summit. Future philosophers, supermen and minor men integrated as a whole in the classification of spirits in such"Great politics".Naturalization of man from constructive perspective highlights the new direction of Nietzscheanism and characterizes the restoration of its internal system. Under the presupposition of naturalizing human values, naturalization attempts to cultivate a wholesome and noble man that can appreciate nature as a superior being, whereas accepting the coldness and cruelty of nature to the greatest extent.
Keywords/Search Tags:Nietzsche, Naturalization, Construction
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