Bergson e Nietzsche:

The mystic in “A russian pilgrim”

Abstract

The objective of this study is demonstrate how the background institutions, which delineate the concepts of life in Bergson (1959-1941) and in Nietzsche (1844-1900) support their understanding of the concept of mysticism, different from the one explained in the work, of an anonymous author, entitled The Account of a Russian Pilgrim (1831). While the first two author point to the understanding of a secular paradigm of spirituality, the third one expresses a perspective of religious spirituality. Even so, they rely on immediate experience of life's dynamics. For the two philosophers, the expressions "impulse originating in life" and "impulse for creation and invention of life" do not have conflicting conceptual links, but only divergences in style and understanding of reality. If for Bergson, in Creative Evolution, life is understood as an original principle, called Élan Vital — movement, for Nietzsche, in Posthumous Fragments, it comprises the concept of world (nature) and of life as will to power — process of come to be as self-overcoming and the need for self-destruction.

Keywords: Life. Became. Will to Power. Bergson. Nietzche. Mystique.