PHIL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 42: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Axiology, Theism
28 Jul 2020
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Nietzsche is known as the "philosopher of suspicion", and he himself characterized his thoughts as "dynamite" that shatters all generally accepted "truths". His philosophy is primarily understood as critical, but not in an epistemological sense like kant"s, but in an axiological sense; it systematically subjects you to critical suspicion of the various values that are being discussed. a). At first, in the years 1869-1876, nietzsche developed a broad and radical critique of culture. He found german culture to be decadent and extremely mediocre, including the main stream of idealism, which for nietzsche represented a sophisticated expression of the petty. The origin of tragedy, he exalts the and despises socrates and the post-socratic philosophy. Every culture is, according to nietzsche, a combination of two opposing elements, the dionysian and the apollonian. The god dionysus is the representation of the disordered world of passions, emotions and overflow; the dionysian embraces life in all its darkness and horror.
