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<p>Svätopluk Štúr is a strong critic of strands of German thought that emphasize the will to power as an organizing principle of human society. Štúr is particularly critical of Nietzsche’s vitalism, which Štúr believes culminated in national socialism and the destruction of the Second World War. This paper describes and examines Štúr’s criticism of a number of German thinkers and focuses especially on Štúr’s criticism of Nietzsche. Štúr criticizes Nietzsche’s emphasis on life over knowledge. Štúr offers a different philosophy of life grounded in the dignity of human beings and the social consequences of ideas and actions. This paper concludes by examining what Štúr means by dignity in terms of a moral agent and as opposed to Nietzsche’s emphasis on vitalism.</p>
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Svätopluk Štúr is a strong critic of strands of German thought that emphasize the will to power as an organizing principle of human society. Štúr is particularly critical of Nietzsche’s vitalism, which Štúr believes culminated in national socialism and the destruction of the Second World War. This paper describes and examines Štúr’s criticism of a number of German thinkers and focuses especially on Štúr’s criticism of Nietzsche. Štúr criticizes Nietzsche’s emphasis on life over knowledge. Štúr offers a different philosophy of life grounded in the dignity of human beings and the social consequences of ideas and actions. This paper concludes by examining what Štúr means by dignity in terms of a moral agent and as opposed to Nietzsche’s emphasis on vitalism.

Svätopluk Štúr’s criticism of Nietzsche’s vitalism

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Svätopluk Štúr is a strong critic of strands of German thought that emphasize the will to power as an organizing principle of human society. Štúr is...

Svätopluk Štúr’s criticism of Nietzsche’s vitalism

Published Online: May 27, 2023

Page range: 105 - 114

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ebce-2023-0005

Keywords
Svätopluk Štúr, Friedrich Nietzsche, J.G. Fichte, ethics of social consequences, dignity, life, knowledge, will to power, vitalism

© 2023 Brice D. Cantrell, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Svätopluk Štúr’s criticism of Nietzsche’s vitalism

Published Online: May 27, 2023

Page range: 105 - 114

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ebce-2023-0005

KeywordsSvätopluk Štúr, Friedrich Nietzsche, J.G. Fichte, ethics of social consequences, dignity, life, knowledge, will to power, vitalism

© 2023 Brice D. Cantrell, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Svätopluk Štúr, Friedrich Nietzsche, J.G. Fichte, ethics of social consequences, dignity, life, knowledge, will to power, vitalism