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(1986) Nietzsche as affirmative thinker, Dordrecht, Springer.

Nietzsche and Spinoza

amor fati and amor dei

Yirmiyahu Yovel

pp. 183-203

Amor fati — love of fate — is the defiant formula by which Nietzsche sums up his philosophical affirmation. The term, never before used in philosophy,1 is clearly a polemical transformation of Spinoza's amor dei intellectualis, rejecting the primacy of the intellect and positing fatum (fate) instead of Spinoza's nature-God as the object of love.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-4360-5_12

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Yovel, Y. (1986)., Nietzsche and Spinoza: amor fati and amor dei, in Y. Yovel (ed.), Nietzsche as affirmative thinker, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 183-203.

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