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From Denial to Transfiguration: Nietzsche’s Break with Schopenhauer and the Artistic Creation of Value

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Saparate ways. AI image Introduction Nietzsche’s mature philosophy cannot be understood without reckoning with his decisive rupture from Arthur Schopenhauer. This break marks more than a personal or intellectual disagreement; it signals a fundamental reorientation of how value, art, and philosophy itself are conceived. Where Schopenhauer sought redemption through negation and withdrawal from the world, Nietzsche came to affirm creation, interpretation, and form. The emergence of value-creation in Nietzsche’s later work coincides directly with this departure and finds its clearest expression in his radical revaluation of art. Schopenhauer’s Ethics of Negation Schopenhauer’s influence on the young Nietzsche was profound. Nietzsche himself later recalled that upon encountering Schopenhauer for the first time, he felt an immediate and decisive recognition: he counted himself among those readers who, “after having read the first page, know for certain that they will read every page an...

The Modern Abyss: Dostoevsky and Nietzsche Confronting the Death of God

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Dostoyevski and Nietzsche in the style of Chagall. AI image Note: This text was originally written in Spanish and is presented here in English translation. Introduction The crisis of nineteenth-century Europe was not merely political or scientific; it was, above all, spiritual. The erosion of Christian faith, the transformation of moral values, and the emergence of a radically historical consciousness confronted modern thought with an unsettling question: how is one to live when God no longer guarantees meaning? Within this horizon emerge two central figures, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche, often read side by side and frequently linked through the notion of a supposed direct influence. Yet what binds them is not a relation of dependence but a deeper affinity: a shared confrontation with nihilism and with the responsibility that arises once life must be lived without transcendent foundations. The decisive difference between them lies in how they respond to this condition....