An Examination Aimed at Interactions Between Confidence in Consciousness and Moral Prejiduces: The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Journal Title: Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi - Year 2018, Vol 58, Issue 2
Abstract
Having the ability to abstract and to create notions have caused humans to be sorrounded with the notions only consist of their fiction, and reinforced their beliefs to their own consciousness' consistency. Thus, the distance between human and nature has possibly, increased. Well, does consciousness have the right to explain the nature, and what moral perception can be generated from the idea of a creature with consciousness? In our everday life, we completely believe that, the notions in our vocabulary can explain the external world. Because of our eligibility to comprehend this world, we think we are exempt from the necessities of it and we can determine our actions via our free-will. But according to Friedrich Nietzsche, our assemption in this direction is only delusion; there is actually a necessity arising from physical weakness behind humans being conscious creatures and forming their own vocabulary. As being weak creatures, humans have to give the meaning to the world with their conceptions; but these conceptions are only common metaphors, truncate the wealth of the nature via “similarize the dissimilars”. Humans externalize this delusion they interiorise voluntarily also to their moral lives, and believe that they can categorize and judge the others in conformity with common opinions. Because, consciousness contains free will and the idea of free will contains the postulate that we can isolate persons from their actions. But, according to Nietzsche, this assumption is totally baseless. Because, considering persons responsible for their actions aims to block the strong ones to express their strength and it's originated from ressentiment. In case of humans, they don't have the freedom not to reveal the actions they carried out, there are instinctual determinations also behind seemingly the most conscious actions, so they are dependent on natural necessity. In our study, we scrutinise the connection Nietzsche founded between our ordinary comprehension about consciousness with the moral assumptions took form within this scope, and the counter-arguments he claimed to our opinions on this matter. In this context, the film we refer in our research will be The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Jeder für Sich und Gott gegen Alle, Werner Herzog, 1974). This film is suitable for our study, for having a protagonist, who's been isolated from society until the first years of his youth, thus became free from common conceptions and moral assumptions. From this point of view, aforesaid film is scrutinised with its aspects which deepen our examinations within the path we follow.
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Çağdaş Emrah ÇAĞLIYAN
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