Ada Gał

This paper presents the meaning of the concept of love in philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. Love in its proper form is a kind of intoxication (Rausch), therefore it is an expression of feeling of power. Besides there are also distorted types of love. There are love of the herd, which is one of the modest virtue, and Christian love as manifestation of the greatness weakness. The main aim of this paper is to demonstrate, that despite of relatively few fragments of Nietzsche’s works about love, love in his philosophy is an important component of reality. This applies especially to perfect love, which is manifestation of the being itself in its greatest fullness.

The main goal of my master thesis is to present a way of grounding of being, alternative to the methods of traditional metaphysics. In this picture the ground for being is a process of constituting of what there is by a specifically understood subject, namely center of force (Kraftzentrum). Human being who is a center of force not only imposes form onto beings but in addition to that he creates them in all dimensions. This way of grounding is untypical, yet it has significant advantages. First of all, the exaltation of human being in the metaphysical structure, next the established close link between human being and being in general, and finally, the rejection of absolute character of the ground. Such the type of grounding is representative to Friedrich Nietzsche’s metaphysic. Therefore in first part of my thesis I will show the main concepts of Nietzsche’s metaphysics which refer to the schema of constitution of beings. Will of power, subject, becoming, valuations and being are eminent examples of it. In the second part I will stress upon some specific consequences of Nietzsche’s metaphysics. I will highlight its ontological relativism and some issues that could follow it.