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Nietzsches: Metaphysics As A Hallucination Of Art

Posted on:2008-12-02Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H Y SongFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360215452513Subject:Foreign philosophy
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Nietzsches declared that he was"a disciple of the first tragedy philosopher Dionysus."This announced that his identity and position were different from other philosophers`. Most Greek philosophers stood in metaphysics and moral ethics to talk about the tragedy. For example, Socrates believed that art had never mentioned "the truth", so he rejected tragedy; Later, Aristotle believed tragedy had the effect of moral purification which inspired by the emotions of fear and pity, in other words, he thought there was an intrinsic correlation between tragic and moral. In fact, it was the moral impulse that suppress the (tragedy) artistic impulse; While Nietzsche took art(poetry)from the maid freed status of dialectical philosophy ,which had eventually become the leading force in the arena of philosophy. Thereby, he established a new art metaphysics while subverting the process of traditional metaphysics,trying to save the arts survive.He turned the "noble illusion" of tragedy art into the reality of survival, and believed that the essence of life was an aesthetic, artistic significance to the survival of mankind was something meaningful that arts can enhance a sense of vitality, relieve pain and the weak value. Art concepts and values turned into one, they all served for the foundation of mankind`s survival:Arts made life beautiful,while values guaranteed life.When Nietzsches traced the Greek tragedy`s glory development until to the destruction process, he then degenerated Greek tragedy with the spirit of the life trajectory of the decay inherent linked up Greek tragedy that ultimately destroyed by the union of Euripides and Socrates. Euripides advocated Realism, he used his resourcefulness to weaken or resolve the conflicts tragedy, which gradually evolved to ethical drama. So people began to scramble in front of petty and collaboration, thereby losing the spirit of the pursuit of higher goals in the Community; Meanwhile, the world began a long campaign against tragedy which was called the philosophical movement by Socrates, it reflected on the eternal truth and the pursuit of the ultimate goal, the overall standard of the world, the longing and moral order. Long for the Christian rule, the gods of Greeks and the tragic art were not collaborated to the God, the Greek philosophy had even become the slave-girl of the God, all of which had caused arts parted ways with the truth. Truly, the loss of natural human feelings, no experience tragedy, not a happy spasm, not pure ideals, utility numb to go and beg people in this world, fear all days. To search the meaning of life, Nietzsches revalued all previous valuation trying to find a fundamental place in realistic life, therefore, an art metaphysics emerged.Nihilism constituted the essence of the traditional western metaphysics, it was Nihilism that push the survival of the West to an extreme situation. Plato's metaphysics and Christian theology were all of its manifestations. Because they always connected us to the land of denigration "no" position, while the rational and absolute respect for the illusory "it", they were induced to put a generation of the world to the world of exist. Furthermore, it turned from the realistic nature of the land to a super-emotional areas. Renaissance reevaluated the Christian`values, its divine order, the highest values gradually subsided while Greeks individual experienced and valued rising in the process of history. But, Greek form of experience was always linked to size movement, then when Christianity world that God entrusted to the ultimate value of the demons were killed, Greek classical life and Renaissance became exhausted and no end to the moment, human values would be reduced on the critical point of Nihilism.So, we are going to be that the value of a shortage of times, people have each other despite the dispute, but it does not have a higher goal, no fighting for a higher goal and spirit that seems to be no sense of futility. Thus, the ultimate truth in the pursuit of traditional metaphysics became a joke in Nietzsche`eyes. He only confirmed metaphysics as certain assumptions and interpretations, surface, relative, rather than absolute truth. He consciously believed that the strong will, eternal life, perspective epistemology and the survival value of the conference were a truth of the "interpretation" , but not the absolute value. So,to Nietzsche, the absolutely traditional true metaphysics turns into a relatively elaborate metaphysical. Traditional metaphysics based on the conviction of rational, a purely object of understanding and awareness relying on pure impulse to understand and assume so constructed on the"real world"pure theory of knowledge, the metaphysical concept of the system was based on the real life world of appearance, the"appearance"appeared as a reference to the value of human existence for practice. In this light, the reason was a very small part of human minds, the concept largely influenced by trial and the individual emotion,such as integrity constraints. Therefore, the overall spirit of metaphysics in particular should be a matter of personal experience as a starting point in irrational instantaneous building. His strong will and eternal life, perspective and other metaphysical concepts were all based on the instantaneous irrational personal experience. In this way, Nietzsche put traditionally rational metaphysics ontology into the art non-rational ontology. But Nietzsche did not escape the modern aesthetic paradigm perceptual, it was not only necessary making art assume nihilism "anti-movement" mission but also relying on psychological methods to grasp the essence of nihilism, at the same time of strongly advocating emotional force in the modern aestheticism of the"physical", Nietzsches advocated "physical" as a life unity of all instinct, desire and passion, a form of powerfull will. In fact, Nietzsche still experienced and formulated art according to emotional state, only leaded speculative emotional nature to a more specific sense of "physiological and psychology "synthesis of the physical nature.This absolutely shows Nietzsche has fallen down on the inherent links between the art dominance and the absolute return.The art as the dominant music purely equates to emotional state of dominance, the return towards the absolute has become "a purely emotional to the complete ablation." Art metaphysical solace becomes illusion that humanity can survive.
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