Abstract

LAZO BRIONES, Pablo. Assesments of violence as evil: considerations from Nietzsche and Sloterdijk. En-clav. pen [online]. 2022, vol.16, n.32, e554.  Epub Sep 26, 2022. ISSN 2594-1100.  https://doi.org/10.46530/ecdp.v0i32.554.

This article will reflect on the conditions that lead to consider violence as evil in some contemporary cultural discourses, and will criticize from the philosophical perspectives of Nietzsche and Sloterdijk the equalization between the two. With this, it will be sought to demystify violence as a naturalized locus and unique source of evil, in order to investigate whether there is a life-enhancing violence in the Nietzschean sense, as well as a social transformation in the kinetic sense that interests Sloterdijk. In order to achieve these objectives, the relation of the valuation of violence as evil will be investigated following Nietzsche's genealogical plan, while Sloterdijk's explanation of violence as spectacle in contemporary societies will be presented.

Keywords : Violence; Evil; Transvaloration; Nietzsche; Sloterdijk.