« From self-knowledge to becoming-self. Is Nietzsche anti-platonic in this respect? »
(2024) Anuario Filosofico — p. 1-19 (2024)
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- Nietzsche criticizes the Apollonian ideal of self-knowledge, which is at the heart of Socrates' and Plato's theoretical ideals. From this point of view, the Dionysian process of becoming oneself seems to counter to it. Our aim here is to show that the Delphic sentence, as taken up by Plato, is not at all content to be a theoretical ideal, but leads directly to practice and to becoming oneself. Furthermore, in Plato’s interpretation, it is on the contrary allowing the human to become close to the gods. And if Nietzsche is initially particularly critical of the Socratic ideal of self-knowledge, it must be acknowledged that he is particularly critical of such knowledge, which carries with it an objective claim, like he will write more clearly in the § 80 of Beyond Good and Evil. We argue here that Nietzsche did not condemn all self-knowledge, and that such knowledge, conceived as self-interpretation, could on the contrary accompany the movement of becoming oneself. In this respect, Nietzsche is as much a critic of Plato (insofar as he places self-knowledge at the foundation of life) as he is an heir to him.
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Quérini, N. (2024). « From self-knowledge to becoming-self. Is Nietzsche anti-platonic in this respect? ». Anuario Filosofico, 1-19. https://doi.org/10. (Original work published 2024)