The paradox of morality in Nietzsche

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South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities
Maniatis, Y.N.

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In this essay I would like to investigate the phenomenon of the paradox that one finds when is dealing with the thought of Nietzsche on morality. Such a penetrating research into the realm of morality presupposes a tolerant body and mind, because the feeling after the wonder that one feels when is firstly confronted with the paradox of morality, is the greatest disgust for whatever has been spread and dominated with the name of morality over humanity for the last two thousand years. Of course, the solution of the enigmatic phenomenon of the paradox of morality comes with the known Nietzschean perspective of amorality, which comes as liberator from the moral illusion and its disgust, and as restorer of the unified healthy naturalness of things.

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Appears in Phronimon, Volume 3 Number 1(2001)

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Morality, Amorality

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Maniatis, YN 2001, 'The paradox of morality in Nietzsche', Phronimon, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 77-91.