Descrizione del progetto
Uno studio sull’etica ambientale di Nietzsche
Nel 1991 Max O. Hallman ha dato l’avvio a un dibattito su Nietzsche e l’etica ambientale, affermando che la filosofia del pensatore tedesco sarebbe priva delle basi necessarie a sorreggere un’etica di questo tipo. Con il sostegno del programma di azioni Marie Skłodowska-Curie, il progetto NET esplorerà la coesa etica ambientale di Nietzsche, radicata nel concetto di metabolismo, secondo un quadro etico che può inaugurare una nuova era della sostenibilità, mettendo in connessione filosofia e sociologia. Ispirandosi alle parole pubblicate da Nietzsche nell’opera Ecce Homo (1888), il progetto pone l’alimentazione, il luogo geografico e il clima al centro della filosofia. Nietzsche riteneva che lo «spirito» stesso fosse una forma di metabolismo, partendo dalla considerazione che gli esseri umani sono componenti integrali dei processi metabolici della natura. NET esplora i dibattiti sulla fisiologia del XIX secolo e analizza meticolosamente le opinioni di Nietzsche sull’alimentazione, l’etica del luogo e le risposte ai dibattiti relativi alla fisiologia contemporanea.
Obiettivo
"The debate on Nietzsche and environmental ethics was started by Max O. Hallman in 1991. Despite underlining Nietzsche’s affinities to ecological thought, he maintained that we cannot infer any environmental ethics from Nietzsche’s philosophy. Most scholars agree with Hallman. By contrast, the main objective of this project is to demonstrate for the first time that Nietzsche’s thought provides a coherent environmental ethics based on the notion of metabolism. This environmental ethics may pave the way for a new paradigm of sustainability at the intersection between diverse disciplines such as philosophy and sociology which can mitigate the impact of the Anthropocene. In his intellectual autobiography Ecce Homo (1888), Nietzsche affirms that the issues of nutrition, place, and climate must be placed at the centre of philosophy. For Nietzsche, ‘""spirit"" itself is just a type of metabolism’, and I aim to demonstrate that he considered humans parts of nature’s metabolism. With this view, Nietzsche, I shall argue, responded to the physiology debate of his time. In the light of this, I will address the following questions: What are the most recent contributions in the field of environmental ethics? What are the main positions on metabolism within the 19th-century physiology debate? What are Nietzsche’s stances on nutrition? How does Nietzsche elaborate an ethics of place? And how does Nietzsche respond to the physiology debate of his time? I will analyse Nietzsche’s works chronologically in order to show the development of Nietzsche’s ecological thinking. I will use Martin Muslow’s method of the Konstellationsforschung which examines the perspectives of the various thinkers who addressed the same problem in the same historical period, regardless of whether they were familiar with similar ideas of other philosophers or not. Following this method, I will reconstruct the debate on metabolism at Nietzsche’s time and put it into dialogue with Nietzsche’s works."
Campo scientifico
Parole chiave
Programma(i)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Meccanismo di finanziamento
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinatore
37129 Verona
Italia