Kants ‚kindischer‘ Anthropomorphismus. Nietzsches Kritik der ‚objektiven‘ Teleologie

Abstract

In the last decades, many Nietzsche scholars have begun to attend to Kant's influence on Nietzsche's philosophy, particularly on his criticism of science and of knowledge. This is how Nietzsche's reexamination of the concept of truth emerges. Scholars such as J. Simon and F. Kaulbach have stressed how Nietzsche has completed the displacement of truth—already formulated by Kant - from the level of theoretical reflection to the level of pragmatical reflection. In the planned Doktorarbeit of 1868, Die Teleologie seit Kant, Nietzsche uses Kant interpretations of F.A. Lange and K. Fischer, whose influence can still be found in the works of the maturity. It is mainly from Kant that Nietzsche derives the opposition between human world and animal world. Such an opposition turns into an open criticism of what he considers the Kantian anthropomorphism. Thus, Nietzsche's position can be summarised as a movement mit Kantgegen Kant.