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Nietsche's and Pessoa's psychological fictionalism

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Abstract:
In a note to G.R.S. Mead's Quests Old and New, where he found a section devoted to Hans Vaihinger's main ideas, Fernando Pessoa reflects on the consequences of the fictionalist approach to both our perception of the I and the value of consciousness. These questions correspond to some statements that we find in Nietzsche's writings, which in particular Vaihinger refers to in his Die Philosophie des Als-ob. Our aim is thus to compare Nietzsche's and Pessoa's view of the I and consciousness, and to deal with their psychology by making reference to Vaihinger's fictionalism.
Num apontamento relacionado com a leitura de Quests Old and New de G.R.S. Mead, que revisita as teses principais de Hans Vaihinger, Fernando Pessoa reflecte sobre as consequências de uma abordagem ficcionalista quanto à percepção do eu e ao valor da consciência. As questões que Pessoa coloca encontram correspondência com os escritos de Nietzsche a quem Vaihinger se refere, em particular, no seu livro Philosophie des Als-ob. O nosso intuito é o de aprofundar a comparação entre a concepção do eu e da consciência em Nietzsche e Pessoa, reconstruindo as posições de ambos nos moldes do ficcionalismo de Vaihinger.

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Cardiello, António, and Gori, Pietro, "Nietsche's and Pessoa's psychological fictionalism" (2016). Pessoa Plural—A Journal of Fernando Pessoa Studies. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://doi.org/10.7301/Z0WH2N6M

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  • Pessoa Plural—A Journal of Fernando Pessoa Studies

    Pessoa Plural—A Journal of Fernando Pessoa Studies (ISSN: 2212-4179) is an international peer-reviewed scholarly journal dedicated to studies of Fernando Pessoa. It is published jointly by the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University, the Department of …

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