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Record Nr.

UNINA9910162992003321

Autore

Murray Peter Durno

Titolo

Nietzsche's Affirmative Morality : A Revaluation Based in the Dionysian World-View / / Peter Durno Murray

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2015]

©1999

ISBN

3-11-080051-9

Edizione

[Reprint 2015]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung ; ; 42

Disciplina

170.92

Soggetti

Ethics

Lust - Nietzsche, Friedrich

Moraal

Moral

Lust

Nietzsche, Friedrich

PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- I. Nietzsche's Dionysus -- II. Contradiction, Duplicity and Opposition -- III: The Language of Redemption -- IV: The Basis in Pleasure -- V. A Sense of the Earth -- VI: Eternal Return -- VII: Affirmation: The Love of Fate -- Conclusion: A Beautiful in Vain? -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book argues that Nietzsche bases his affirmative morality on the model of individual responsiveness to otherness which he takes from the mythology of Dionysus. The subject is not free to choose to avoid such responding to the demands of the other. Nietzsche finds that the basic mode of responding is pleasure. This feeling, as a basis for morality, underlies the morality which is true to the earth and the major concepts of “will to power”, “eternal return”, and “amor fati”. The priority of otherness makes all thought ethical and not only aesthetic. The basis of all meanings combines the fundamental impulse of responding outwards with an immediate complement in the individual



interpretation-world. This is specifically ethical because the recognition of our own historical specificity arises as a result of the refusal of others to become mere differences within our notion of the Same, and through their demand that we “become who we are” in the recognition of their separate existence.