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Nietzsche’s Goal of Friendship

Nietzsche’s Goal of Friendship The purpose of this article is to illuminate the topic of “Redlichkeit” in <i>The Gay Science</i> in order to provide a greater understanding of the relationship among friendship, knowledge-seeking, and overcoming in Nietzsche’s <i>GS</i> and <i>Thus Spoke Zarathustra</i>. In <i>GS</i> 14 Nietzsche formulates friendship as involving “a <i>shared</i> higher thirst for an ideal.” Although higher friendship, for Nietzsche, involves a mutual goal, this article argues that the goal is not truth. First, the notion of the intellectual conscience and how passionate knowledge-seeking is distinguished from the standardized practices of truth that Nietzsche rejects is explained. Second, the problem of the Ãœbermensch, or Overhuman, and its status as an ideal or goal is examined. In conclusion, the link that Nietzsche makes between becoming Overhuman and the development of Redlichkeit by the intellectual conscience in passionate knowledge-seeking friendship is explained. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of Nietzsche Studies Penn State University Press

Nietzsche’s Goal of Friendship

Verkerk, Willow
The Journal of Nietzsche Studies , Volume 45 (3) – Nov 26, 2014
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Abstract

The purpose of this article is to illuminate the topic of “Redlichkeit” in <i>The Gay Science</i> in order to provide a greater understanding of the relationship among friendship, knowledge-seeking, and overcoming in Nietzsche’s <i>GS</i> and <i>Thus Spoke Zarathustra</i>. In <i>GS</i> 14 Nietzsche formulates friendship as involving “a <i>shared</i> higher thirst for an ideal.” Although higher friendship, for Nietzsche, involves a mutual goal, this article argues that the goal is not truth. First, the notion of the intellectual conscience and how passionate knowledge-seeking is distinguished from the standardized practices of truth that Nietzsche rejects is explained. Second, the problem of the Übermensch, or Overhuman, and its status as an ideal or goal is examined. In conclusion, the link that Nietzsche makes between becoming Overhuman and the development of Redlichkeit by the intellectual conscience in passionate knowledge-seeking friendship is explained.

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The Journal of Nietzsche Studies – Penn State University Press

Published: Nov 26, 2014

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