SUBJECT OF COURAGE LECTURE IKT CONGRESS ATHENS
Friedrich Nietzsche
MARCUS STEINWEG
SUBJECT OF COURAGE
To assert SELF-DETERMINATION requires that the subject concerned with art and philosophy manifest a form of COURAGE coming from the unkown. It is the mouvement that rises from the impulse given by recklessness.
Being reckless means transforming an ordinary course into a DIFFERENT FORM OF MOVEMENT. Deviate, do something unexpected.
The SUBJECT OF RECKLESSNESS surprises other subjects, besides surprising himself.Taking a risk with different moves is somewhat impossible to evaluate ahead of time.
However, this subject lets go of legitimate channels common to human reason, in order to seek new ways, open new horizons without being reassured by the past or the present. Everything belongs to the unknown in these NEW WAYS AND HORIZONS.
The reckless ones come across all phases of UNCERTAINTY and INTOXICATION. They are attracted by an accomplished desire, one that reason has not foregrounded. In Zarathoustra’s song of drunkenness the drunk song of Zarathoustra, NIETZSCHE has qualified this state as the DESIRE FOR ETERNITY. It is one which insists on its permanence. It is an AFFIRMATIVE DESIRE : an AMORAL DREAM.