Nietzsche's Affirmative Morality
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Nietzsche's Affirmative Morality

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Nietzsche's Affirmative Morality

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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.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9783110166019
eBook ISBN
9783110800517
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Modern Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Foreword
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Abbreviations
  4. Part One: The Dionysian World-View
  5. I. Nietzsche's Dionysus
  6. 1. The Double Nature of Dionysus: Ethical Questions and Art
  7. 2. The Third Dionysus
  8. 3. The Redemption of Life
  9. 4. Delphi: the Separation of Self and Other
  10. 5. Socrates' Daemon
  11. 6. The Possibility of Tragedy: Hybris
  12. II. Contradiction, Duplicity and Opposition
  13. 1. The Aesthetic Game: Creation and Destruction
  14. 2. Contradiction
  15. 3. The Origin of Opposition in Duplicity
  16. 4. The Perspective of Universality
  17. III. The Language of Redemption
  18. 1. Myth and the Genius of Poetry
  19. 2. From Images to Words
  20. 3. Rhetorical Language: Metaphor
  21. 4. "Dionysus" as a Metonymy
  22. Part Two: Affirmative Morality
  23. IV. The Basis in Pleasure
  24. 1. Pleasure and Displeasure
  25. 2. The Aesthetical-Ethical Method
  26. 3. Beyond Domination and the Lust for Power
  27. 4. Being with Others: Pity and Empathy
  28. V. A Sense of the Earth
  29. 1. Becoming True to the Earth
  30. 2. The Affective Basis of Sense
  31. 3. Will to Power and the Dionysian
  32. 4. Will to Power: the Human-Earth
  33. VI. Recurrence and Return
  34. 1. The Great Year
  35. 2. From Recurrence to Return
  36. 3. The Lenzer Heide Notes
  37. 4. Eternal Return and the Overcoming of Pity
  38. VII. Affirmation: The Love of Fate
  39. 1. The Ethos of Affirmation
  40. 2. The Spiritualisation of Lust
  41. 3. A Joyful and Trusting Fatalism
  42. 4. Amor Fati and Affirmation
  43. Conclusion: A Beautiful in Vain?
  44. Bibliography
  45. Name Index
  46. Subject Index