On suffering (leiden) and compassion (mitleiden) in Nietzsche's critique of Schopenhauerian moral philosophy

This paper has as main objective to understand Nietzsche’s critics in The Antichrist of Schopenhauer’s moral thought through the general approach of fragments 7, 8 and 9 of this same book, in which the moral of compassion (Mitleiden) (guided by the denial of will to life)  is viewed as a mortifying...

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Autor: Uchôas, Pedro Damasceno
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM)
Repositorio:Voluntas - Revista Internacional de Filosofia (Santa Maria)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/87851
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.ufsm.br/voluntas/article/view/87851
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Compaixão
Moralidade
Vontade de potência
Compassion
Morality
will to power
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Sumario:This paper has as main objective to understand Nietzsche’s critics in The Antichrist of Schopenhauer’s moral thought through the general approach of fragments 7, 8 and 9 of this same book, in which the moral of compassion (Mitleiden) (guided by the denial of will to life)  is viewed as a mortifying and harmful feeling. According to Nietzsche’s comments, it can be understood that compassion, as a shared feeling of suffering, is negative because of 1) its unnatural constituent, 2) its tendency to reduce and erase individual characteristics of individual experiences of suffering, potentially transformative and constructive, and 3) its constant denying of conflict as part of the affirmation of life.