Nietzsche and Spinoza

amor fati and amor dei

Yirmiyahu Yovel

pp. 183-203

in: Yirmiyahu Yovel (ed), Nietzsche as affirmative thinker, Berlin, Springer, 1986

Abstract

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.

Cited authors

Nietzsche Friedrich

Spinoza Baruch