O Problema do Bem e do Mal em Spinoza e Nietzsche: Para uma crítica dos valores morais

Abstract

Benedictus de Spinoza (1632-1677) and Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) tried to fight the moral view of the world founded in an absolute and metaphysical concept of Good. The question of good and evil is a concern for both philosophers. Taking as reference the works, Spinoza’s Ethics and the First dissertation of the Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals, this article aims to analyze the good and evil concepts in both philosophies, and finally make a relationship of these two authors. The survey results were as follows: Spinoza, rationalist philosopher of the seventeenth century, understood good and evil as ways of human thinking they were assigned to the comparison of things. Nietzsche, philosopher and philologist of the nineteenth century, analyzed the moral of historical-critical way and see the good and evil relationship as games of interest between noble classes and slaves where there is an inversion of values.