Abstract

Nietzsche’s thought constituted an object of reflection on the part of Heidegger even before becoming for him a symbol for the oblivion of the Being in the context of the history of metaphysics. In quest of a phenomenological method of his own, Heidegger choose Nietzsche as a paradigm of a philosophy paying attention to life and its philosophical manifestations. Within this context Nietzsche became for Heidegger a field of encounter and clash with his first mentor, i. e. Heinrich Rickert. It is well known that in his approach to the “Nietzsche paradigm”, i. e. to the prevailing theme of life in the contemporary spiritual situation, Heidegger followed a different path from Rickert. But the author aims at showing that, in turning himself to Hegel in order to resolve the most difficult problems of his phenomenology of life, Heidegger was originally following the advice given in Rickert’s Philosophie des Lebens “to turn oneself to Hegel more than to Zarathustra” in a situation characterized by the prevalence of the philosophy of life