Perspectivism and democracy: a brief reflection about politics from the Nietzschean "Free Spirit"

Authors

  • Fernando Costa Mattos Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2318-9800.v0i12p79-98

Keywords:

Freedom, Perspectivism, Democracy, Politics, Nietzsche

Abstract

This paper suggests a bond between Nietzsche’s perspectivism, understood on the basis of individual freedom of creation and self-affirmation, and the democratic state of law, understood in terms of its fundamental presuppositions. Though Nietzsche frequently presents himself as an apologist of aristocracy, he also seems, on the other hand, to sustain maxim freedom of creation, and recognises the centrality of the individual in modernity. In this sense, it would be possible to sustain democratic formal freedom as a necessary condition of the effective freedom that distinguishes the “free spirit”: without the former, the latter would not be able to move through the many perspectives that are necessary for him to become wise and be a lawmaker for himself.

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Author Biography

  • Fernando Costa Mattos, Universidade de São Paulo

    Doutor em filosofia pela Universidade de São Paulo desenvolve atualmente pesquisa de pós-doutoramento, com bolsa da Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PAulo (FAPESP), junto ao Núcleo Direito e Democracia do Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP)

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Published

2008-12-14

Issue

No. 12 (2008)

Section

Articles

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How to Cite

Mattos, F. C. (2008). Perspectivism and democracy: a brief reflection about politics from the Nietzschean "Free Spirit". Cadernos De Filosofia Alemã: Crítica E Modernidade, 12, 79-98. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2318-9800.v0i12p79-98