Why Nietzsche is still in the morality game

Abstract

Nietzsche's thought it is necessary to propose the elements of an affirmation of life that is free of theodicy. Nietzsche diagnoses it to genuine life-affirmation need to consider the extraordinarily radical account of life-denial that emerges from the Genealogy. Intense effort has been devoted to reconstructing Nietzsche's portrayal of the values and concepts structured by slave morality and their search for transcendence of time, causality, fate, becoming all risk and danger. Life-affirmation is not a matter of merely reversing the valuations of life-denial. The pose of assuming that "life" or its suffering can be evaluated and justified is the pose of the life-denier. Fundamental philosophical positions that Nietzsche adopts, especially on the individuation of events and on determinism, also suggest that the individual event is a less suitable candidate for affirmation than the life in which it is situated.

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