CRISTIANISMO E NIILISMO EM NIETZSCHE

Abstract

This dissertation deals with the criticism Nietzsche addresses to Christianism, more specifically, to the niilism that originates along the process of western moral formation, towards the “death of God”. The first chapter discusses the fundamentals of Christianism and the dichotomy of values that have risen in the context of the historical process of the western decadence. In analyses the dichotomy that assumes the form of oppositions, such as Master’s Moral (Henrren/Moral) and Slave’s Moral (Skalaven/Moral), Good (Gut) and Evil (Böse) and many other divergences. The second part reflects Nietzsche’s understanding regarding the development of this process in what concerns the intensification of bad conscience and the priestly teaching, subjects propounded in his book On the Genealogy of Moral (1887). A questioning that ends in the conception of Will to Power, as the fundamental character that permeates the whole of the author’s thought. In the third chapter, it approaches the process of nihilism related to the subject of God’s Death, an absolutely radical statement that marked definitely western Christian M oral as far as its fundamental values lost vigorouness. Finally, the conclusion, expounds the possibility that points to a complete exhaustion of nihilism that would allow a fundamental reversal of position in Christyanism that would manifest itself through a radical “Transmutation of Values”.