Rising and Falling - Zarathustra's speech "The tree on the hill" as a phenomenology of rising and a self-critique of linerarity
2016
Abstrakt
This essay investigates the chapter ""The tree on the hill"", which is Zarathustra's eight speech from the first part of Nietzsche's ""Thus spoke Zarathustra"". The reason for this speech is founded within the narration by an interpersonal encounter between Zarathustra and a young man.
Therefrom arises an implicit phenomenology of Rising which transcends other philosophical approaches to this particular set of problems, particularly the one by Plato, because Nietzsche succeeds to think Falling as a necessary part of the movement of Rising itself. Furthermore the interdependence between Rising and Self as shown in this speech will be analyzed within this article.