Beyond compassion : on Nietzsche’s moral therapy in Dawn

In this essay I seek to show that a philosophy of modesty informs core aspects of both Nietzsche's critique of morality and what he intends to replace morality with, namely, an ethics of self-cultivation. To demonstrate this I focus on Dawn: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality, a largely neglected text in his corpus where Nietzsche carries out a quite wide-ranging critique of morality, including Mitleid. It is one of Nietzsche's most experimental works and is best read, I claim, as an Epicurean-inspired critique of the present and an exercise in moral therapy. In the opening sections I draw attention to the wider social dimension of the text and its concern with a morality of compassion, which is rarely done in the literature. I then turn to highlighting Nietzsche's 'Epicurean moment', followed by two sections on Nietzsche on the self in which I aim to bring to light his ethics of self-cultivation and show in what ways his revaluation makes central to ethics a modest egoism and care of self. In the conclusion to the essay I provide a contrast between Nietzsche and Kant and deal with reservations readers might have about his ethics. Overall, the essay seeks to make a contribution to an appreciation of Dawn as a work of moral therapy

As criações do gênio: Ambivalências da "metafísica da arte" nietzschiana

As criações do gênio apolíneo-dionisíaco estão no centro das preocupações da metafísica de artista, e suscitam a questão acerca do vínculo de Nietzsche com a estética do Romantismo Alemão e de Schopenhauer. Investigamos neste artigo as ambivalências do pensamento nietzschiano no que tange ao conflito entre a arte apolínea da ilusão e a sabedoria dionisíaca, entre o Uno-Primordial e a aparência.<br>The creations of the apollinian-dionysian genius are in the center of the concerns of the artist's metaphysics and raise the question about the relationship of Nietzsche to the aesthetics of German Romanticism and Schopenhauer's. In this article we investigate the ambivalences of the Nietzschean thinking regarding the conflict between the apollinian art of illusion and the Dionysian wisdom, between the Primordial-One and the appearance

Nietzsche e Platão: arte e orquestração das paixões

O objetivo deste texto é apontar os pontos de proximidade e de diferença entre as reflexões de Nietzsche e de Platão sobre o papel da arte para o autogoverno do indivíduo e a autonomia e soberania da cultura.<br>This article aims to show the points of difference and affinities between Nietzsche's and Plato's thoughts on the role of the art in the individual self-governing and sovereign of culture