Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-2009
Publisher
Routledge/Taylor & Francis
Abstract
Robert Solomon argues that Nietzsche is committed to a virtue ethic like Aristotle's. Solomon’s approach seems unaware of Nietzsche’s belief in the horror of existence. A life that contains as much suffering as Nietzsche expects a life to contain, could not be considered a good life by Aristotle. To go further, as Nietzsche does in his doctrines of eternal recurrence and amor fati, to advocate loving such a fate, to refuse to change the slightest detail, Aristotle would find debased. Nietzsche is committed to a virtue ethic, but not an Aristotelian one.
Recommended Citation
Kain, P. J. "Nietzsche, Virtue, and the Horror of Existence," British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 17 (2009): 153-67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09608780802548416
Comments
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in British Journal for the History of Philosophy on January 2009, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09608780802548416.