Niilismo e modernidade em Nietzsche

In: Griot: Revista de Filosofia, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 61-71

Abstract

In view of the current understandings of violence, which tend to present it always negatively, Nietzsche's genealogy allows us to understand that violence also has a positive character in the historical course of the West. It enabled the establishment of civilization, to the extent that it shaped a particular human type. The morality of morals and primitive law were mechanisms of violence and cruelty that made man responsible, predictable, and obedient to standards. By renouncing the immediate satisfaction of instincts, one has internalized the guilt and one has instituted the civilized man. But in this same course grew and dominated the nihilism.