The Dragon on the Path and the Emerald of Love: A Nietzschean reading of Rūmī’s concept of love

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Open Theology Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.1515/opth-2022-0215

H. M. Arani

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Abstract

Abstract Facing suffering and death, or what is known as human fragility, does not seem all that difficult and challenging in the presence of a morally responsible God or the primordial source of all existence. However, if our theodicy does not allow for the existence of such a God or primordial source, as in Ashʿarite theology or Schopenhauer’s philosophy, then the encounter with human fragility necessitates a more sophisticated explanation. Schopenhauer, by rejecting the loving Christian God, adopts the Buddhist solution to death which, he claims, has been maintained in Sufism. While recognizing Schopenhauer’s metaphysics, Nietzsche disagrees with his moral approach and attempts to address human vulnerability from an aesthetic standpoint. In this article, I argue that Rūmī, following Ashʿarite theodicy, attempts to transcend the moral position of theologians with his concept of love and, instead of appealing to the dominant asceticism of fear and terror, confronts human fragility through the framework of his mysticism of love. The article then makes an effort to provide a reasonable interpretation of this mysticism in light of Nietzsche’s aesthetic metaphysics.

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《路上的龙与爱的翡翠》——尼采对鲁爱情观的解读

摘要面对痛苦和死亡，或者所谓的人类脆弱，在一个道德上负责任的上帝或所有存在的原始来源面前，似乎并不那么困难和具有挑战性。然而，如果我们的神论不允许这样一个上帝或原始来源的存在，就像在阿什神学或叔本华的哲学中一样，那么人类脆弱性的遭遇需要更复杂的解释。叔本华拒绝了慈爱的基督教上帝，采用了佛教对死亡的解决方案，他声称，这种解决方案在苏菲主义中得到了维护。在承认叔本华形而上学的同时，尼采不同意他的道德方法，并试图从美学的角度来解决人类的脆弱性。在这篇文章中，我认为Rúmī遵循Ashʿarite神论，试图用他的爱的概念超越神学家的道德地位，并通过他的爱的神秘主义框架来对抗人类的脆弱性，而不是诉诸于恐惧和恐怖的主流禁欲主义。本文试图从尼采美学形而上学的角度对这种神秘主义进行合理的阐释。

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