[Diabolus, disease, and Nietzsche: considerations and interpretations]
Journal Article: Medycyna nowozytna: studia nad historia medycyny / Polska Akademia Nauk, Instytut Historii Nauki 02/2001; 8(1):55-69.
Abstract
Disease shows its dual nature: it carries suffering and pain, but also means trespassing the sluggish limits of healthy life. This trespassing confirms the distance separating man from nature and, at the same time, confirms man's spirituality. Nietzsche's disease and work support this interpretation, so precisely expressed by Thomas Mann in his novel Doctor Faustus: disease contains the diabolus of human biology and human spirituality.
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Keywords
diabolus
dual nature
healthy life
man's spirituality
novel Doctor Faustus
Thomas Mann
trespassing
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