A GENEALOGIA DA MORAL EM NIETZSCHE: UMA CRÍTICA À MORAL JUDAÍCO-CRISTÃ

Abstract

This research aims to discuss Nietzsche’s criticism of traditional morality, more precisely the nature and implications of the Judeo-Christian morality, retracing the themes of the transvaluation of values, the guilty conscience, and ascetic ideals, fundamental elements to his On the Genealogy of Morality. To Nietzsche, the JudeoChristian morality imprisons and oppresses man by eliminating his basic features, as it transforms him into something different from his true natural condition. The Nietzschean criticism also highlights how the flock’s morality (a product of the slave rebellion of morality) in contrast to the master’s morality, and how the inversion of values took place, which led to a change in the individuals’ behavior through the weakening of his will to power. Hence, to Nietzsche, the morality forged by ascetic ideals imposes itself as tyranny against human nature.