Original scientific paper

Nietzsche’s Conception of Life

Vladimir Jelkić ; Odsjek za filozofiju, Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilište Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku, Lorenza Jägera 9, HR-31000 Osijek

Abstract

The authors start from the thesis that philosophy must ask the question about its own actuality, and that the current moment poses the problems which integrative bioethics is trying to solve. The authors think that the basic bioethical term “life” (bios), as the pre-Socratic philosophers understood it, is closer to contemporaneity than the anthropocentric notions of the philosophers before Nietzsche or various biologistic ideas. The article expounds Nietzsche’s understanding of the term life in the context of the whole of his thought, and points out that it is encouraging for contemporary bioethical thoughts close to biocentrism.

Keywords

Nietzsche; life; willpower; bioethics

Hrčak ID:

79798

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/79798

Publication date:

9.4.2012.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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