Ghost talk
A conversation with ghosts is the conception of the history of ideas that outstanding figures in the history of ideas communicate across times and spaces.
In his early work, Friedrich Nietzsche describes this timeless context of understanding as a basic element of monumental historiography , which he places alongside the antiquarian and critical in his essay On the benefits and disadvantages of history for life .
In this way, the hope man as "moving and aspirant" in an eternal, existing on the time connection, because what once "further relax the concept of man and to meet nice" could, should "be eternally present." Let it be new Achievements encouraged, because the greats of the past were at least once possible and thus also achievable later. Individuals could “form a kind of bridge over the wild river of becoming” by living “timelessly and simultaneously” in the republic of geniuses mentioned by Arthur Schopenhauer . A giant "calls out to the other through the dreary gaps of time, and undisturbed by wanton, noisy dwarfs who crawl away from under them", "the high spirits talk continues."
During this development phase , Nietzsche represented idealizing ideas of genius , which were mainly based on Richard Wagner , with whom the “only productive political power in Germany ... came to victory”. Only genius, which is essentially Dionysian, can renew culture.
Karl Jaspers implemented this idea for himself and viewed the reception of the history of philosophy as a dialogue or communication with the "great" philosophers, which opens up a space for philosophizing in which one comes into an inner conversation with them about fundamental questions makes it possible to acquire the thinking of these outstanding thinkers and thereby develop one's own thinking.
Individual evidence
- ^ Ghost talk , Metzler, Lexikon Literatur, Stuttgart, 2007, p. 269
- ↑ Friedrich Nietzsche, On the benefits and disadvantages of history for life , untimely considerations, works in three volumes, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1997, p. 219
- ↑ Friedrich Nietzsche, On the benefits and disadvantages of history for life , untimely considerations, works in three volumes, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1997, p. 220
- ↑ Friedrich Nietzsche, On the benefits and disadvantages of history for life , untimely considerations, works in three volumes, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1997, p. 271
- ↑ Historical Dictionary of Philosophy , Genie, Vol. 3, pp. 305–306
- ↑ Karl Jaspers: Introduction to Philosophy. Twelve radio lectures. Zurich 1950, 17