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Humans: Humans, or Homo sapiens, are the most intelligent and widespread species of primates. Humans are characterized by bipedalism, large brains, and capacity for articulate speech and abstract reasoning. Humans are social creatures who live in complex societies. See also Society, Reason, Thinking, Brain, Intelligence, Language._____________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 Humans - Dictionary of Arguments
Danto III 135 Human/Nietzsche/Danto: The concept of human is an anthropomorphism; for the self, the ego and the soul are actually only derived entities based on our prejudice that every event should be based on something as an effecting force - under which also thoughts can be counted. >Self/Nietzsche, >Psychology/Nietzsche. Danto III 219 Human/Nietzsche/Danto: "When he first discovered the possibility of self-control, the human awakened an interest in himself, a tension, a hope, (...) as if something was about to happen, preparing something, as if the human were not a goal, but only a way, an incident, a bridge, a great promise."(1) Danto: it must be clear to the very end that Nietzsche did not want to let the beast out of the cage into which the morale had locked it up. Nietzsche encouraged us to go beyond what we are, not back to who we were. >Morality/Nietzsche. It is possible that humans remain in the state of mere self-aggression or mere self-loathing. That is what Nietzsche calls a guilty conscience. 1. F. Nietzsche Zur Genealogie der Moral, KGW VI. 2, p. 339f._____________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 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 |