The Corruption of Consciousness as a New Nihilism: Nietzschean Roots on the Decadence and Abuse [Spanish]

Authors

  • Fernando José Vergara Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez

Keywords:

Filosofía, Nietzsche, moral

Abstract

This article explores the concept of corruption following the Nietzschean category of decadence in the religious, moral, metaphysical and epistemic realms in the horizon of nihilism. The focus was the constant presence of decadence as a defining element in our Western culture according to the Nietzschean genealogical diagnosis. Based on the hermeneutic analysis of Nietzsche's works, it is demonstrated that corruption not only breaks down trust as a pillar of anthropology and politics, but it also breaks promise as a theological and philosophical basis and replaces the ethos of cohabitation with the pathos of suspicion. It is concluded that this quality of man's corruptibility arises as a causal condition in the architecture of abuse and for the decisive growth of a new type of nihilism: the nihilism of consciousness.

Author Biography

Fernando José Vergara, Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez

Vicerrector de Identidad y Desarrollo Estudiantil. Investigador Instituto de Filosofía Juvenal Dho.

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2019-08-10

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No. 32 (2020): January-june

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