Finitudine e corpo: per una TeorEtica del dolore tra Heidegger e Nietzsche

In the wake of Nietzsche’s memento to the despisers of body, the twentieth century has developed a real obsession towards the theme of corporality. I intend to explore the sense of Zarathustra’s sentence: «There’s more reason in your body than in your best wisdom». If wisdom is the adequacy of will to the highest good, Nietzsche says that the body knows and performs the epitome of morality way better than Reason. An answer to the genius of Röcken can be found in Heidegger, whose works grant a new perspective on the sense of corporeal being. This can be encountered only by virtue of an ontologically different opening: bodies are the space where the blinks of heaven problematize the ontological status of earth. In conclusion, the distance between the two philosophers can be measured by comparing the meaning they assign to pain, which is the stigmata of corporeality. The result is a philosophy of parting ways, which defers to a practical-hermeneutical location the crucial decisions around what body and pain are and should be.