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Difference Between Absolute And Nietzsche

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Escaping Modernity: Freedom and Happiness at the End of History An argument exists that there is a difference in the conception of Hegel in the relationship of agency and the absolute with that of Nietzsche and Heidegger. My argument now is that the difference in Hegel’s conception of the relationship of agency and absolute is fundamentally different from that of Nietzsche and Heidegger in that, according to Hegel, we can, through reason fathom the absolute and though we constitute it, we can never be the absolute. Nietzsche and Heidegger, on the other hand, locate the absolute in human where they demand that the whole (worthy) human subsumes the absolute. My thinking is that Nietzsche is concerned with the master …show more content…

How hence can they be fathomed? The subsistence of a value assumes a value-positing outlook, and human beings create values as growth and survival aids. Since values are helpful for human animal’s wellbeing, as belief within them is critical to our survival, we frequently sometimes opt to forget that principles are our constructions and we survive via them like they were absolute (82). For those reasons, social establishments imposing adherence to hereditary values are allowed to manufacture self-serving economies of authority, as long as persons are existing within them and are thus made to be more protected and their life’s possibilities improved (83). Nonetheless, time and again we deem the inherited values as never again appropriate and the sustained enforcement of them stand no longer within the life’s …show more content…

In that way, for both Hegel and Nietzsche, the intention and the act are joined into one. In this case, the act simply does not become bodily movement – it is the intention's fulfillment – and it comes to be the constitutive and performative event (84). Robert Pippin summarized that notion in his essay Lightning and Flash that his subjective construal at whichever moment during or ahead of the action possesses no honored authority. The deed on its own is capable of showing the specific

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