FRIDRIH NIČE: TELO KAO VELIKI UM

Abstract

The paper deals with the problem of the body, starting with Nietzsche’s criticism of Platonic metaphysics. In this sense, his views on the body are primarily derived from the books Thus spoke Zarathustra and The Gay Science. It exhibits his interpretation that rejects the suppressed and despised position of the body within the Platonic tradition. Nietzsche regards the body affirmatively in the center of research. It now becomes the essence of man, and the spirit (his sign language) and the soul is something that is attached to the body and is performed out of it. The paper shows how the body is organized as a great reason; how the body serves the spirit (and the little reason) as an instrument, and how it creates the dimension of the soul. In the end, it turns out that within this variable structure of the body, spirit, and soul relationship, the definition of a man is constantly being overcome. In this way, Nietzsche opens the possibility of determining a man as a overman.