Resumen

PEREZ-ESTEVEZ, Antonio. Modern Beings and Nature in the Final Nietzsche. Utopìa y Praxis Latinoamericana [online]. 2006, vol.11, n.34, pp.35-53. ISSN 1315-5216.

From his early writings, Nietzsche took a critical position regarding modern beings. He criticized their loneliness, their separation and opposition to nature. In his final writings, he deepened his criticism. He accused modern man for being an heir to the idealism that infected Jewish and Christian thought, an idealism produced by resentment and hate of priests towards nature and body. Nature is all for Nietzsche, and outside of nature there is nothing. Idealism, the root of all negation and the rejection of everything that is natural and real, impregnates all western thought, from Plato on, including modern thought, in the environment of which the subject was born, reduced to thought and pure reason. That is why the modern subject, as noumenon or pure reason, is for Nietzsche, a fictitious idea transformed by the workings of the human mind into the maximum reality of modernity. Nature, in this manner, is depreciated and minimized axio-logically and ontologically. His model of man is, on the contrary, a being who says yes to nature and life, and serenely accepts fatal love or destiny.

Palabras clave : Nietzsche; subject; modernity; nature.