Nietsche's and Pessoa's psychological fictionalism

Abstract

In a note to G.R.S. Mead's Quests Old and New, where he found a section devoted to Hans Vaihinger's main ideas, Fernando Pessoa reflects on the consequences of the fictionalist approach to both our perception of the I and the value of consciousness. These questions correspond to some statements that we find in Nietzsche's writings, which in particular Vaihinger refers to in his Die Philosophie des Als-ob. Our aim is thus to compare Nietzsche's and Pessoa's view of the I and consciousness, and to deal with their psychology by making reference to Vaihinger's fictionalism.

Keywords

• Pessoa, Fernando
• Nietzsche, Friedrich
• Vaihinger, Hans
• Mead, G. R. S. (George Robert Stow)
• Fictionalism
• Subjectivity
• Neo-Kantianism
• Ficcionalismo
• Subjectividade