Nowadays the interest in Scheler seems to rise from the awareness that his approach to the topic of ethic and politics as well, is never confined to an individualistic perspective but it always spreads in a wider political-social field. In the 1912 work Das Ressentiment im Aufbau der Moralen, he is convinced that what generates the modern Geist is the Ressentiment . In the present age of the Ausgleich of "almost every characteristic of nature concerning the human groups in which the humanity can be divided", the new élites must "lead and direct" this Ausgleich between the "apollinian man" and the "dionysiac man", the manual labour and the intellectual work, the East and the West. Consequently, Scheler’s interlocutor is Nietzsche and his "discovery of resentment" as source of worth moral judgement . According to Nietzsche the human society risks being overthrown by the "Ressentiment" of the weak and the derelicts; that’s why his “aristocratic radicalism” imposes him to tackle the topic of the Ressentiment in a scientific way. Scheler inherits the issue. He is convinced that the resentment is at the base of the middle-class's ethos. But in dispute with Nietzsche, he states that every authentic moral can’t base on the resentment, otherwise it “bases on an eternal hierarchy of values”. Yet Scheler wonders if the resentment makes the great overall processes of the human history understandable.
Tra risentimento e livellamento: Max Scheler interprete e critico di Nietzsche.
FESTA, Saverio
2010-01-01
Abstract
Nowadays the interest in Scheler seems to rise from the awareness that his approach to the topic of ethic and politics as well, is never confined to an individualistic perspective but it always spreads in a wider political-social field. In the 1912 work Das Ressentiment im Aufbau der Moralen, he is convinced that what generates the modern Geist is the Ressentiment . In the present age of the Ausgleich of "almost every characteristic of nature concerning the human groups in which the humanity can be divided", the new élites must "lead and direct" this Ausgleich between the "apollinian man" and the "dionysiac man", the manual labour and the intellectual work, the East and the West. Consequently, Scheler’s interlocutor is Nietzsche and his "discovery of resentment" as source of worth moral judgement . According to Nietzsche the human society risks being overthrown by the "Ressentiment" of the weak and the derelicts; that’s why his “aristocratic radicalism” imposes him to tackle the topic of the Ressentiment in a scientific way. Scheler inherits the issue. He is convinced that the resentment is at the base of the middle-class's ethos. But in dispute with Nietzsche, he states that every authentic moral can’t base on the resentment, otherwise it “bases on an eternal hierarchy of values”. Yet Scheler wonders if the resentment makes the great overall processes of the human history understandable.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
