Introduction to Philosophy Nietzsche‘s morality is based on the figure of

2nd semester Dionysus, the god of drunkenness, of dance, of

spontaneity, of art, of play, of childhood, of body
recovery and of creation.
More than a list of values, Nietzsche gives the
necessary qualities to Superman, including
immanence. Indeed, morality is derived more than
one beyond, but the man himself.
What looks like such a morality? At a Gay Science,
knowledge driven by an affirmative and creative
desire, who wants to know reality as it is, with its
share of chance, evil, unpredictable, absurd. And this
world, from this knowledge, can then be converted:

The Ethics of Friedrich Nietzsche “I love those who are not forced to look beyond the
stars a reason to decline […] but instead sacrifice
After the article on the death of God in Nietzsche and themselves to the earth” “Like one who STRIVE”
his invitation to become what we are, let’s have a look
today on the morality defended by this German
philosopher.
“Death is nothing to us” according to Epicurus

In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the main character
announces as a prophecy a complete reversal of
values. His purpose is to destroy all illusions that may
persist after the announcement of the death of God.
Indeed, the ancient culture and morality are based on
the idea of God. If God is dead, he must reinvent the
morality in rejecting the dualistic metaphysics, which
posits the existence of two worlds, a world of sense
(man’s world) and a supra-sensible world (that of God
and souls).
Nietzsche rejects and destroys only to build: his
movement is creative. The new morality, which must
accompany the Superman in his conquests, is
the WILL TO POWER. The new morality must make
great things possible, restore the man’s potential to
create. Some, as Nietzsche calls the “last men”,
believe that the absence of God leads to nihilism and
immorality, purely and simply. The death of God is in
fact ambivalent: it carries a great hope, that of a new
world, but also a risk, that of seeing the last men
impose chaos.
The theory that the wise man knows no fear of death
is based on the materialism of Epicurus. Indeed, the
soul is material, which is destroyed by death. Neither
heaven nor hell are to be feared in Epicureanism. This
is why death is not painful experience for men,
because there is no more soul to suffer, no more
sensitivity.
Epicurus simplifies the argument by the notion of
meeting: if death is here, then I’m gone, it is
impossible for me to meet it. Wisdom consists in
gaining distance with respect to the idea of death.  If
one keeps thinking about death, he cannot be happy.
Epicurus taught us that death should be ignored as it’s
actually not part of life. Hence, Epicurus defends a
philosophy of detachment, of ataraxia (peace of
mind).

 
Nietzsche‘s morality is not based on :

– Materialism of Epicurus
– Idealism of Plato
– Stoicism of the Greek sages
– Or on any of the classical doctrines that precedes
him.
 Superman must despise the reactive morality ,
despise happiness, despise reason, despise
virtue, despise justice, despise compassion.