NIETZSCHE UNDERSTANDING OF AUTONOMY AS SELF OVERCOMING

Vesna Stankovic Pejnovic

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Abstract


According to Nietzsche autonomous individual has certain skill or capacity to be free, his own long, unbreakable will to power, able to made a promise, has “mastery over himself”, has standard of value,  permitted to say “yes” to himself and conscious of “superiority and completion.” Capability to achieve autonomy Nietzsche explains in mastery over circumstances, nature and fate. Someone who has a spirit to become a free he is capable to accept and affirm oneself as a whole, and rather than seeing the necessity or accepting the fate of one’s character as an obstacle to action, one sees it as an opportunity for true self-expression. An autonomous individual is strong enough for this freedom and stands in the midst of a universe of joyful and trusting fatalism. This person has in his power conscious and unconscious drives and takes with challenge obstacles and opportunity gave by fate. They have will and power for struggle to overcome them and to achieve new freedom according to their rules and values.


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