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Philosophical Course B1 – Reading of German Philosophical Texts

Class at Faculty of Education |
OB2312012

Syllabus

The aim of the course is to introduce students to the context and events, which influenced Nietzsche’s thinking and also to enlarge the interpretational framework for reading Nietzsche’s works. During the seminars, the texts will be read in German and will be compared with the Czech translation.

Through hermeneutical and semantic-linguistic method will be interpreted selected passages in order to clarify terminology. 1)      Life and work – Röcken, Naumburg, Bonn, Basel, Schopenhauer’s, Overbeck’s and the Wagners’ influence, Tribeschen - The Birth of Tragedy (1872), since 1873 Untimely Meditations 2)      Refusing metaphysics – naturalist-psychological approach, Human, All Too Human, The Dawn – critique of metaphysics, ontology, idea of God 3)      New turnover to metaphysics through objective will to power, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Will To Power, The Antichrist – cosmology, will to power, eternal return of the same, will to power and interpretation

Annotation

The course is intended the thinking and work of Friedrich Nietzsche. During the lectures, will be presented the context of his life phase in his hometown Röcken, studying in Naumburg and Bonn, professorial learning at University of Basel and Wagnerian inspiration in Triebschen and thought break with Wagner after Bayreuth dramatic games.

Interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy will be first presented on his analysis of aesthetic ideas and the two basic tendencies of culture - the Dionysian and Apollonian, then we will deal with Nietzsche's critique of metaphysics, ontology and traditional idea of God, also will be presented the principle of "Wille zur Macht", the doctrine of restoration, the philosophy of values and morals, the idea of "Übermensch".

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