Abstract

GARCIA, Indalecio. The origin of language in the philosophy of young Nietzsche. The assumptions of On truth and lies in a nonmoral sense. discus.filos [online]. 2019, vol.20, n.35, pp.111-128. ISSN 0124-6127.  https://doi.org/10.17151/difil.2019.20.35.7.

Tradition has considered language as a tool of knowledge. Nietzsche denies this and describes language in biological terms: language is caused by instinct and its primary function is the survival of the human animal who also determines his way of life according to linguistics (as the instinct determines the life of bees or ants). This paper intends to establish the presuppositions of the position about the origin of language that Nietzsche exposes in his work On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense (1873), where it is affirmed that it is impossible for the language to have any epistemological scope because of its metaphorical character.

Keywords : Nietzsche; Herder; language; instinct; survival; way of life.

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