Nietzsche on Amor Fati

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ID21291571
AuthorsAndrew Huddleston (0000-0001-5007-7215, 2707 University of Notre Dame University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana United States, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume107
Issue4
Pages706-730
Publication date2025-11-10
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-9101 • E-ISSN: 0943-3988
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/agph-2024-0040
OpenAlexW4411699167
LanguageEN
References cited23

Amor fati – love of fate – is one of the formulations most often associated with Nietzsche. How, I ask in this paper, should we understand the relevant kind of love this amor fati involves, as against more familiar ideas of interpersonal love and love as historically understood in the philosophical tradition? The love we see with amor fati is not, as prominent readings would have it, about the supposed free bestowal of agape , nor the pursuit of the beautiful characteristic of eros . It instead centrally involves embracing something and coming to be at home with it – in this case, with fate. I explore this philosophically interesting idea of love and explain how it helps us better understand what Nietzsche has in mind by amor fati

Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology

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