Volume 23, Issue 45, April 2015
Pensamento e Éthica
Jorge Luiz Viesenteiner
Pages 39-55
Sobre o Significado de uma Genealogia de si no Livro Aurora de Nietzsche (‘Si’ como o próprio Nietzsche e como Filósofo)
This paper aims to analyze one of Nietzsche’s first successful attempts to genealogically understand himself and himself as a philosopher, in the book Morgenröthe published in 1881, based on the notions of distancing and questioning. The strategy of distancing, understood as differentiation of differentiation, consists of placing the ‘question of why?, what for?’, directed to the ‘confidence in the moral’, to the readers as well as, indirectly, to the whole of Nietzsche’s own questioning. Thus, the critical distancing is, simultaneously, the attempt of a genealogical understanding of himself. This critical procedure is conducted by the argumentative strategy of distancing from the ‘errors of reason’, inasmuch this confrontation plays the role of a magnifier to Nietzsche himself, whose confront in Morgenröthe can be understood through the aphorism 563, entitled “The illusion of the moral order of the world”. A figure of thought to this important genealogy was referred by Nietzsche as Don Juan of knowledge, which performs the function of a magnifier for Nietzsche as well.