Nietzsche and the becoming: criticism the truth and the unfinished of the perspectivism

• Grant number: 12/20446-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: July 01, 2013
• End date: December 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - History of Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: Thelma Silveira da Mota Lessa da Fonseca
• Grantee: Rafael Amaral Hyertquist Bordini
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research project intends to show that Nietzsche has traced the paths of Heraclitus becoming over the course of his work, and it is accurately this influence that Heraclitus exercised on Nietzsche's philosophy that provides subsidies for this current work. The first goal will be to go through Nietzsche's critics to the idea of truth. Nietzsche endorses a motion for disputation of interpretations on the detriment of a system of inalienable truths or of a theory of knowledge. The philosopher is positioned in the benefit of the "perspectivism" contrary to the belief of a finished truth and free of questioning. The purpose in its first stage will be to understand how we can assign the Heraclitus becoming to a two-way street, of which Nietzsche appropriates to conduct his criticism of truth, and also, to what extent, the becoming is the bottom line for the formulation of his "perspectivism". The second stage, is intended to propose a detailed argument starting from this idea of "perspectivism", and then the problem: the "perspectivism" wouldn't suggest a kind of inverted theory of knowledge, which is what Nietzsche strongly criticized?(AU)