Nietzsche über Moral und Moralismus

Abstract

Nietzsche on Morality and Moralism. If moralism is understood as behaviour that applies moral criteria where they have no business, then moralism is a major issue for Nietzsche. However, he not only rejects moralism and moralising in the sense just outlined. In addition, morality itself and as such becomes a problem for him. Nietzsche argues that the confusion regarding the scope of moral norms, which is characteristic of moralism, can be tracked even further. It corrodes morality itself. Nietzsche asks whether, and if so, under what conditions, moral demands that introduce an ‘ought’ into human life can be justified. He suspects that morality as it is conceived in modernity, ‘when seen through the prism of life’, is nothing else than a very subtly dressed-up kind of moralism.