Sul tema dell’eroismo in Friedrich Nietzsche

Journal title SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)
Author/s Giuliano Campioni
Publishing Year 2021 Issue 2021/71 Language Italian
Pages 15 P. 74-88 File size 99 KB
DOI 10.3280/LAS2021-071005
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This essay analyses Nietzsche’s various and complex relation with heroism and his progressive distance from the idea of heroism proposed by both Romanticism and Idea¬lism and their teleology. As far as Nietzsche is concerned, heroism has to be based on a be¬lief and has to be guaranteed metaphysically and theologically speaking. Carlyle’s heroes are particularly criticised by the philosopher - Nietzsche consider them drastically different from Emerson’s - and Wagner’s decadent heroes are disapproved of as well. Nietzsche’s strong critique is also against Lou Salomè. In fact, in the latter Nietzsche initially admired a he¬roic trait because of her anticonformism in her fight against her time and background on¬ly to change his mind later on. Nietzsche also disapproves of Heinrich von Stein’s «heroic ethics». Finally, all these thinkers make Nietzsche definitively affirm «I am the opposite of a heroic nature».

Keywords: Heroism, methaphysical beliefs, ethics and teleology, heroic truthfulness

Giuliano Campioni, Sul tema dell’eroismo in Friedrich Nietzsche in "SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)" 71/2021, pp 74-88, DOI: 10.3280/LAS2021-071005