Name: RODRIGO FERREIRA DOS SANTOS
Publication date: 29/11/2024
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| RICARDO BAZILIO DALLA VECCHIA | Examinador Externo |
| WANDER ANDRADE DE PAULA | Presidente |
| WILLIAM MATTIOLI | Examinador Externo |
Summary: The central objective of this work is to analyze Nietzsche's critique of modernity based on section 13 of The Birth of Tragedy, in which the author presents the hypothesis that, with Socrates, a new form of interiority emerges, from which all Western culture is inherited. To examine this critique, the research unfolds into three complementary analytical fronts: (i) an approach to the so-called Socratic question, aiming to highlight the treatment and status of the figure of Socrates as presented by the author in this work. In this context, the Athenian philosopher is described through his ambivalent character, which is expressed in two senses of daimon, namely: daimon as an inner voice that restrained the Athenian philosopher in particular moments when his consciousness was not at work, and the image of Socrates himself as a daimon; (ii) an analysis of Nietzsche’s critique of modernity as a process of rationalization of existence, through establishing a dialogue with the theme of the tragic in the
young Nietzsche; (iii) the presentation of the hypothesis that, in critiquing the process of rationalization of existence, Nietzsche develops a notion of interiority based on pulsional/instinctive forces that act in an affirmative and creative way, while consciousness takes on a dissuasive and critical role. With this form of interiority, Nietzsche critically evaluates the functional subversion present in the emerging interiority of the figure of Socrates, who, in the first instance, has consciousness acting in the affirmative-creative function and instinctive wisdom operating as dissuasive.
