NIETZSCHEAN CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT THE BODY

philosophical perspectives beyond metaphysics and physicalism

Abstract

The philosophy of Nietzsche developed through their critique of dualist position that considers human composition in the existence of a psychophysical dualism, represented by the difference between body and soul. To undertake a profound questioning of these theories, the German philosopher passes to combat much of idealist philosophical tradition, beginning with Plato, allegedly responsible for establishing the metaphysical division between the sensible worlds ”“ where our physical imperfections and weaknesses lie, and the world of intelligible substances, full of truth and perfection. With interest we delve on the monism of Nietzsche, we note that in its view, the physical body will eventually be understood not merely as a costly matter, but as a dynamic process, or as a movement of forces in continuous change. Addressing the different works of the author and the allowance interpreters of his thought, as Gilles Deleuze and Miguel Angel Barrenechea, proposes to examine the natural Nietzschean conception of the body beyond metaphysics and physicalism. From this perspective, the body is not understood as a substantial unity, but as the confrontation between bodily impulses that determine the multiple power relations and their temporary agreements in organic totality.