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Life: Life is the state of being characterized by growth, metabolism, homeostasis, adaptation, reproduction, and response to stimuli. Living organisms are made up of cells, which are the basic units of life._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Friedrich Nietzsche on Life - Dictionary of Arguments
Ries II 29 Life/Nietzsche: Renouncement of all moral interpretation and justification in favour of an aesthetic self-production of life beyond "sense" and "non-sense". >Morality/Nietzsche, >Sense. --- Pfotenhauer IV 5 Life/Nietzsche: The offensive thing that Nietzsche has been dealing with since the early tragedy scripture (...) is that our life owes its existence to the fact of birth, which is coincidental and beyond our control, and that we must be certain of its finiteness.(1) 1. F. Nietzsche. Die Geburt der Tragödie, 4, KGW III. --- Danto III 111 Life/Reality/Nietzsche/Danto: Life is not an argument ((s) for reality) the error could be under the conditions of life.(1) Danto III 237 Life/Human/Nihilism/Nietzsche/Danto: As soon as Nietzsche's nihilism - according to which there is no objective order or structure existing before our formation - is accepted, one will no longer be tempted, as he believed, to disparage human life by contrasting it with eternal, immutable or good things in themselves. .... According to Nietzsche, the real task is to make humanity more than it has been. Cf. >Nihilism/Nietzsche. . F. Nietzsche, Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, KGW V, 2. S. 155._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Nie I Friedrich Nietzsche Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe Berlin 2009 Nie V F. Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil 2014 Ries II Wiebrecht Ries Nietzsche zur Einführung Hamburg 1990 Pfot I Helmut Pfotenhauer Die Kunst als Physiologie. Nietzsches ästhetische Theorie und literarische Produktion. Stuttgart 1985 Danto I A. C. Danto Connections to the World - The Basic Concepts of Philosophy, New York 1989 German Edition: Wege zur Welt München 1999 Danto III Arthur C. Danto Nietzsche as Philosopher: An Original Study, New York 1965 German Edition: Nietzsche als Philosoph München 1998 Danto VII A. C. Danto The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art (Columbia Classics in Philosophy) New York 2005 |