SHOOTING AT VIRTUE

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  • Jaanus Sooväli University of Tartu, Estonia Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/phi.v21i2.42974

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Nietzsche, morality, virtue, immoralism.

Resumo

Nietzsche is known as a great and poignant critic of the Judeo-Christian virtue and morality, but the motivation and aim of his criticisms might sometimes remain unclear. For instance, in Twilight of the Idols, he writes: “Are we harming virtue, we immoralists? – Just as little as anarchists harm princes. Princes sit securely on their thrones only after they've been shot at. Moral: morality must be shot at.” This saying seems to suggest that Nietzsche criticized and attacked traditional virtue and morality in order to consolidate and strengthen them. In the article, I provide an interpretation of this saying and, in the course of it, approach Nietzsche’s reconceptualization of virtue and morality more generally. 

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Biografia do Autor

  • Jaanus Sooväli, University of Tartu, Estonia Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics

    Research Fellow

    Insitute of Philosophy and Semiotics

    University of Tartu, Estonia

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19-01-2017

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SOOVÄLI, J. SHOOTING AT VIRTUE. Philósophos - Revista de Filosofia, v. 21, n. 2, p. 107–126, 19 jan.2017.