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Nietzsche's use and abuse of Kant's philosophy

S I M Du Plessis

pp. 270-274

Contemporary philosophers are becoming increasingly aware of the indebtedness of irrationalism to Kant's philosophy. Friedrich Nietzsche's orgiastic intuitionism is no exception in this regard, however ironical Nietzsche's use of Kant might be, in the very act of abusing him. Nobody made unfriendlier remarks about Kant than Nietzsche in the presentation of his own intuitionistic dynamism, which is supposed to be completely opposed to Kant's formalism and moralism. Nobody generally seemed to be less aware of the fact that the entire essential pattern of the Nietzschean polarity between the Dionysiac and the Apolline had its parallel and origin in the systems of Schopenhauer and Kant in the most conclusive sense.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-3099-1_21

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Du Plessis, S.I.M. (1972)., Nietzsche's use and abuse of Kant's philosophy, in L. White Beck (ed.), Proceedings of the Third international Kant congress, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 270-274.

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