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| Author(s): |
Eli Vagner Francisco Rodrigues
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2008-10-31 |
| Examining board members: |
Oswaldo Giacoia Junior;
Tristan Guillermo Torriani;
Marcio Benchimol Barros;
Sandra Riscal;
Enéias Forlin
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| Advisor: | Oswaldo Giacoia Junior |
| Abstract | |
The theme of this work is based upon the hypothesis that the Schopenhauer's philosophy could be characterized as a nihilist thought. We try to explain away how the criticisms made by Nietzsche to the morals of compassion of Schopenhauer finds place, and obtain some theoretical density, in the context of his analysis of the nihilism of weakness, which Nietzsche points as the main characteristic of the European cultural decadency. The problem of the nothingness is as well under examination, with the purpose of put it in relation to the broad thematic of nihilism, and to show the sense in which the ethics of the philosopher from Frankfurt frames a soteriology. The basis for this interpretation lay on the following characteristics: to point out to an absence of finality (a finalism negation, a-teleology) to the will and, consequently, to the absence of an intelligible telos to the world, the pessimist attitude based on the metaphysic of the will, and on the soteriology, defended by the philosopher himself in his doctrine of a negation of the will, which, by its turn, points out to the nothingness status, the will's target in the morals of compassion. This characterization, as we see it, is related to the reception, to the interpretation and to the nietzschean criticism of Schopenhauer's philosophy, chiefly on the characterization that Nietzsche made of the nihilism of the weakness. (AU) | |