Philosophy as a Dagger
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https://doi.org/10.18485/kis.2020.52.171.1Keywords:
Nikola Milošević, mental and metaphysical harakiri, mental pain, beauty of style, melancholyAbstract
The paper involves critical reading and reevaluation of the 1967 essay “Metaphysical Harikiri” by Nikola Milošević. Considered is Milošević’s differentiating between mental and metaphysical harikiri, as well as theoretical concepts of Konstantin Leontiev, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche and Oswald Spengler, which Milošević used to underpin his own thesis that likened philosophy to a blade or a dagger, with which the philosopher wounds himself. Even though Milošević never republished it in his later publications, the essay is an important part of his opus, especially in terms of his interpretation of the so-called bitter beauty of style found in some philosophical works characterized by a pessimistic or melancholy undercurrent.
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