Between the "characterology" of Schopenhauer and the "become what one is" of Nietzsche

Abstract

This publication concerns to the unfolding of a study on the theme of the subject. Its focus is on the ambivalence of some aspects of the thema, such as a subject understood as the result of a subjectivation process, firstly, and, secondly, as an agente which acts on this process in order to direct it. The goal at this point is to show that this kind of ambivalence, common in recent writings of Nietzsche, is not accidental, but corresponds to a particular way of doing philosophy that can be summarized under the term "margin of maneuver", which corresponds to a procedure known by him in his reading of Schopenhauer. In order to illustrate this procedure, we will point out the ambivalence checked in characterology Schopenhauer, especially in the way he extends the concept of character, in view of sections 28 and 55 of The World as Will and Representation, and in Nietzsche, we will indicate the ambivalence present in the idea of a self understood in Ecce homo. As we intend to demonstrate this way of doing philosophy is indispensable for a conception of the subject that can be identified in Schopenhauer and that is amplified by Nietzsche.