Nietzsche's Study Of "Children" Image

the children as Nietzsche's dominant image have the close connection with his superman theory, power will as well as the eternal transmigration. As the aestheticzed existence, the children are naturally connected with the games and aesthetic appreciation. The relationship between the children and the supermen lies in their common characteristics of freedom, creation, generation and transcendence. The image of children presents the free will which is against the traditional metaphysics and also against the asceticism and pessimism in Christianity. However, there has the complete freedom in children's games. The children are passionate about the games; they are the natural players, and they show the entire freedom in it, so the children are the symbols of the freedom. Like the mother giving the birth, creation also needs to endure the pain, but as the fruit of creation, the children are the brand-new value judgment which has to discard the dross and select the essential and to eliminate the false and retain the true. The children, as the symbol of transcendence, are to transcend their own limitations to constantly perfect themselves. While the generation shows that the children are not the concrete and fixed representatives but the images with the endless development and improvement. Their richness is not only because of their characteristics same to the supermen's but also the profound meaning they have of the power and volition and the eternal transmigration. In order to cultivate a superman, it needs to go through the loneliness, to suffer the pain, to have the fearless and great courage, and to own the pure and noble mind. Yet these are possessed by the children's image.Nietzsche confirms and even praises the Dionysus is because it confirms the life. He thinks that life is the power will which generates itself and endows itself with the meaning and value constantly. The power will as the understanding is to known the subject itself and then confirms the life, as the pursuit of the truth to create the truth actively instead of discovering it, as the body to confirm the desire and the justifiability of the physical existence and give the body the totally new meaning:to have a healthy and strong body. However, as the life itself, the power and volition concentrates on the children. The children's volition is the one pursues the creation, freedom, boldness and vitality. The obvious feature of the children's indefiniteness is the constant generation of the life. They don't or completely ignore the burden from the metaphysics. They have transcended the spiritual burden. They make efforts to search for the creation, and they hold high hopes on the future. As the beginning of Nietzsche's superman theory, the children can also be seen as the beginning of the power and volition of life itself. The relation between the children and the power and volition is that the child is the expression as well as the specific actor of the later.To breed the abyss-like idea of the eternal transmigration, Nietzsche did not only take a lot of caution, but also suffer the great pain in spirit. The idea of eternal transmigration is like a child eventually growing mature. It governs the superman theory and the power and volition; it is the transcendence of the super man and the warm praise on the affirmation of the power and volition in life. The life has the eternal transmigration, so does the aeon.As the game players, the children are the expressions of existence and the symbol of freedom. They are indulged in the games and gain the aestheticzed life. Nietzsche always confirms the life no matter by the use of superman, power and volition or the eternal transmigration. However, what comforts us most is the children's aestheticzed life in games.