Nietzsche's Affirmative Morality

by Peter Durno Murray

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",...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110166011
• ISBN13: 9783110166019
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary