Nietzsche and the Mother: A Contrast to Kantian Enlightenment
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SummaryTo what extent does Nietzsche impose his ideals on the reader or create an open and flexible world-view? Upon closing his arguments in On the Genealogy of Morals Nietzsche imagines a reader asking him “’What are you really doing, erecting an ideal or knocking one down?’” (95). He answers with a rhetorical question: “But have you ever asked yourselves sufficiently how much the erection of every ideal on earth has cost?” (95). By this we are not to assume that he must therefore be knocking down an ideal, he is simply questioning the nature of the act of ideal creation. Rather than erecting ideals there seems to be latent in his text the idea of a different kind of ideal creation which turns back to the womb, to the potentiality of pregnancy and new generations, and finds in the mother an opportunity for rebirth of society through her artistic gift to and manifested in the child. Crucial to the development idea is an examination of the imposed, which Kant first began in his essay “What is Enlightenment?”
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- The answer, Kant says, is 'Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage?
- Nietzsche's critique of the history of religious guilt and its developments appears to be in line with Kant's belief
- One of the more interesting ways he does this is by examining the religion of these nobles.
- Aside from the rhetorical brilliance of this passage, Nietzsche is creating a remarkable synthesis of ideas.
- To return to our original question, what is Nietzsche imposing and what is he leaving open?
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