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Nietzsche’s Philosophy of chaos —focused on human creativity—

kang yong soo 1

1고려대학교

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ABSTRACT

Nietzsche’s criticism of chaos is a very important subject in his philosophical interests of cosmology, ontology, epistemology, aesthetics, and social philosophy. Chaos implies negativity in itself, but is required as a premise of forming power to create a new human being. This paper attempts to explore the possibility of overcoming chaos from various viewpoints by distinguishing Nietzsche’s concept of chaos from its descriptive aspect and its normative meaning in order to newly study it in relation to creativity. Chaos is a clue to Nietzsche’s universe and a dynamic world view of human beings as a clue to demythization and dehumanization of existence caused by ‘Death of God’. Nietzsche’s chaos philosophy beyond the dichotomy of metaphysics and ethics, is affirmative notion to open up a new dimension of aesthetics as the purpose of creation. By expanding philosophical thought into the inevitability of the eternal return, we dynamically present the task of human perfection and self-creation in the aesthetic sense of ‘Lebenskunst’ in social philosophy.

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