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  • Chapter 12 - Nietzsche and the “aesthetics of character”

  • Edited by Simon May, King's College London
  • Book:
    Nietzsche's <I>On the Genealogy of Morality</I>
    Published online:
    05 November 2011
    Print publication:
    13 October 2011, pp 265-284

  • Summary

    This chapter suggests that aesthetic is the way any non-moral ideal of character might be expected to look from within the perspective of morality, narrowly understood. It distinguishes another use of aesthetic in connection with ideals of character, in which it labels either a kind of conception of character Nietzsche did not have, or is simply synonymous with ideals of no distinctively aesthetic variety. The chapter outlines a phenomenon, though not the only one, that's quite properly labeled by the phrase having an aesthetic ideal of character. Roger Crisp's mention of beauty of character recalls an even weaker justification for the aesthetic label as applied to ideals of character, namely that an excellence of character is an aesthetic excellence if its possessor takes pleasure in the thought of having it. The fact that priests too are form-givers is no reason, then, not to treat virtù as a distinctively Nietzschean ideal.