The formation of the self : Nietzsche and complexity
| dc.contributor.author | Cilliers, Paul, 1956- | |
| dc.contributor.author | Roodt, Vasti | |
| dc.contributor.author | De Villiers, Tanya | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-09-06T05:38:28Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-09-06T05:38:28Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2002 | |
| dc.description | The original publication is available at http://www.ajol.info/index.php/sajpem | en_ZA |
| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this article is to examine the relationship between the formation of the self and the worldly horizon within which this self achieves its meaning. Our inquiry takes place from two perspectives: the first derived from the Nietzschean analysis of how one becomes what one is; the other from current developments in complexity theory. This two-angled approach opens up different, yet related dimensions of a non-essentialist understanding of the self that is none the less neither arbitrary nor deterministic. Indeed, at the meeting point of these two perspectives on the self lies a conception of a dynamic, worldly self, whose identity is bound up with its appearance in a world shared with others. After examining this argument from the respective view points offered by Nietzsche and complexity theory, the article concludes with a consideration of some of the political and ethical implications of representing our situatedness within a shared human domain as a condition for self-formation. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.version | Publishers' Version | en_ZA |
| dc.format.extent | 17 p. | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Cilliers, P., De Villiers, T. & Roodt, V. The formation of the self : Nietzsche and complexity. South African Journal of Philisophy, 21(1) 1-17. http://www.ajol.info/index.php/sajpem/article/viewFile/31332/23306 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0258 0136 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/16348 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_ZA | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | Philosophical Society of South Africa. | en_ZA |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | South African Journal of Philosophy;Vol.21(1) 2002: 1-17 | |
| dc.rights.holder | South African Journal of Philosophy | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Self | en |
| dc.subject | Complexity (Philosophy) | en |
| dc.subject | Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 | en |
| dc.subject | Identity (Philosophical concept) | en |
| dc.subject | Self-realization | en |
| dc.title | The formation of the self : Nietzsche and complexity | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Article | en_ZA |