"[...] Assuming that every philosophy was originally a long tragedy"
Or on the edge between interpretation and truth
Keywords:
Will to Power, Will to Truth, Philosophy, Interpretation, TragedyAbstract
Nietzsche, at the end of paragraph 25 of Beyond good and evil, suggests that “every philosophy was originally a long tragedy”. This paper proposes a particular interpretation for this assertion, in which the tragic sense attributed to philosophy is associated with the philosophical quest for truth that Nietzsche names as “will to truth”. In this respect, the conceptual rudder is both the notion of “will to power”, here understood as an intrinsically agonistic and interpretive process, constitutor of meaning and domain, and the relation of this notion with two other concepts that are essential to the idea of tragedy, namely, hybris and prudence.
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