PEDRO NAGEM DE SOUZA

The present work intends to analyze the concepts of Health, Way of Living and Taste from the text Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks (1873) by Friedrich Nietzsche, inserting them in the context of the problematics of culture developed by the philosopher in the first phase of his thought. I intend to demonstrate how the figure of the people's physician, by proposing the unification of vital impulses under an artistic style, is what organizes the conceptual articulations of the texts belonging to the so-called Untimely Cycle (The works between The Birth of Tragedy and Human, All Too Human). Starting from the preface to the Tragic Age, Part I shows the Nietzschean critique of the criterion of truth in the analysis of ancient philosophical systems, a critique that is based on a notion of Philosophy as a Way of Living. Then, approaching several previous and later texts, I intend to demonstrate how the notion of Health, related to the Kantian notion of expediency, commands the development of Nietzsche's reflections on Culture, Value, History and Philosophy. Part II makes a detailed analysis of the following chapters of the Tragic Age in order to follow up, on the one hand, what Nietzsche understands by Philosophy in this period, and on the other, the notion of justification of Philosophy by the salutary criterion, which has in the notion of Philosophical Taste as a point of arrival