RT Article
T1 DOWN TO EARTH WITH NIETZSCHE: The ethical effects of attitudes toward time and body
JF Ethical theory and moral practice
VO 7
IS 3
SP 309
OP 328
A1 Sybylla, Roe
LA English
YR 2004
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785693174
AB This paper is about the effects on people's lives of their attitudes towards time and their own embodiment. People commonly see time as biform; there is the time of bodily life and the eternal time which transcends mortal life. This division is deeply implicated in the dualistic values that pervade western thought. So, when Nietzsche substitutes a monist notion of time, he profoundly unsettles our cherished values (which, of course, are gendered). Nietzsche's major thrust, I argue, is to elucidate and advocate the more appropriate values that emerge when human existence is understood as entirely earthborn., I use two contrasting literary characters to show concretely how people's lives and relationships are affected negatively or positively according to the temporal perspectives they adopt (and thus the significance they give to their corporeality). I explain how acceptance of human finitude enables a fruitful and rewarding life, while its refusal is life-diminishing. This also makes conceivable a realm beyond gender.
K1 Temporality
K1 Ressentiment
K1 philosophy nand literature
K1 Nietzsche
K1 Ishiguro
K1 Gender
K1 Foucault
K1 Ethics
K1 Dualism
K1 Dinesen
K1 Body
K1 amor fati
DO 10.1023/B:ETTA.0000042890.46585.8d