Nietzsche on the good of cultural change.
This paper attributes to Nietzsche a theory of cultural development according to which pyramid societies—steeply hierarchical societies following a unified morality—systematically alternate with motley societies, which emerge when pyramid societies encounter other cultures or allow their strict more...
| Publicado en: | European Journal of Philosophy Vol. 31; no. 4; pp. 927 - 950 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2023
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