Nietzsche and the political project based on the selectivity of virtue. An aristocratic project of will to dominion

Abstract

Since writing his For the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche has been developing a project marked by an increasingly radical distrust of the fundamental bases of culture. This project has even reverberated in several epistolary exchanges with Georg Brandes, of which the one on December 2, 1887 stands out, with the expression “Aristocratic Radicalism.” Aristocracy can be inferred from the philosopher's criticism of the entire gregarious dimension, through which culture is marked. And, as a response, Nietzsche, in the Posthumous of 1887, presents the virtue that is affirmed in the will to dominate. In the course of this work it will be observed to what extent Nietzsche's effort for this conception of transvalued virtue, that is, stripped of morality, is capable of contributing to the political project of domination and overcoming. The very notion of aristocracy has, in its dimension of radicalism, virtue as the will to dominate, one of its differences. Would this virtue be understood exclusively as strength, and therefore devoid of morality, informed by Christianity as a civilizing project?