Nietzsche's Affirmative Morality: A Revaluation Based in the Dionysian World-View

Peter Durno Murray

Nietzsche's Affirmative Morality: A Revaluation Based in the Dionysian World-View
Format
Hardback
Publisher
De Gruyter
Country
Germany
Published
4 August 1999
Pages
336
ISBN
9783110166019

Nietzsche’s Affirmative Morality: A Revaluation Based in the Dionysian World-View

Peter Durno Murray

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Peter Murray 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 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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