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Title: | Nietzsche and Heidegger On the Question of Being Human | ||||
Author: | Shahrukhi, Ali |
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0000 0001 3396 0786
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Awarding Body: | THE UNIVERSITY OF READING | ||||
Current Institution: | University of Reading | ||||
Date of Award: | 2005 | ||||
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Heidegger claims in Being and Time that philosophy has continually refused to take up
the task of working out a 'natural' conception of the world. (One. where, for example,
certain sceptical worries do not arise). My thesis argues that this task is one which
emerges clearly from Kant's response to British empiricism - so that Kant's critical
philosophy marks the emergence of a new kind of 'naturalism' in which the question of
what is distinctively human about human animality is brought to the fore. What is still
lacking in Kant, however, is the idea of our t~ching or being responsive to entities
themselves which is registered, in Heidegger, by the idea of our 'attunedness'. But, the
question of Dasein's precise relation to being human - or, the question of precisely who
Dasein is - is problematised, for example, by cases of human children, the physically.
disabled and non-human animals. I suggest that Ni~tzsche'sconception of the world as
will-ta-power - whose basic unit is the 'drive' - is one which (already) provides the
'natural' conception of the world that (the early) Heidegger is loo~g for. I argue, with
. constant reference to Camus' Meursault and Shakespeare's Juliet, that seeing the world
as will to power means being able to affirm what the Doctrine of the Eternal Recurrence
asks us to affirm.
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Supervisor: | Not available | Sponsor: | Not available | ||
Qualification Name: | Thesis (Ph.D.) | Qualification Level: | Doctoral | ||
EThOS ID: | uk.bl.ethos.485707 | DOI: | Not available | ||
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