HEИндивидуална стипендия2023–2025

NET · Nutrition, Place, and Climate. Nietzsche’s Environmental Ethics.

„Хоризонт Европа“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2023-04-01 → 2025-03-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 172 750 €
Участници: 3
Схема: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF

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Накратко на български

Философията на Ницше се анализира, за да се изведе етика, която отрича човешкото превъзходство над останалите живи същества. Това е важно, защото може да помогне за промяна в поведението ни и възстановяване на хармонията с природата.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

Nutrition, Place, and Climate. Nietzsche’s Environmental Ethics.

The environmental crisis we are witnessing today is becoming always more severe. Life on planet Earth is at the risk of extinction and we have almost arrived at a point of no return. We, human beings, cannot continue behaving as we did over the course of history so far, almost completely ignoring the needs of nature and non-human beings. The environmental degradation calls on us all to radically change our approach to the natural realm. For this we need a new ethical paradigm, one that can potentially reestablish our lost harmony with nature. In this respect, philosophy must assume its historical responsibility and help guide us towards this goal. This project aims to demonstrate how Nietzsche’s philosophy is best suited to play this role. Indeed, Nietzsche was one of the few Western philosophers to carry out one of the strongest attacks against the traditional Western devaluation of nature. He called on us all to ‘translate humanity back into nature’, thereby negating any superiority of humans above other living beings. By reconstructing Nietzsche’s positions on nature and ethics throughout his works and bringing them into dialogue with the literature on environmental ethics, this project aims to show how we can infer an environmental ethics from Nietzsche’s philosophy. This environmental ethics can potentially foster respectful behaviour towards nature, ultimately leading to a society mindful of the needs of nature and non-human beings.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

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.""

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI VERONA · VeronaКоординаторИталия
THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · OxfordОбединеното кралство
UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE · Newcastle Upon TyneОбединеното кралство