Abstract:

An important part of Nietzsche’s philosophy is his criticism of morality and especially of the values of good and evil. According to Nietzsche, who sees the history of moral philosophy as the mere justification of these concepts, what really needs to be done is to examine the will behind the effort to justify them. In this sense, Nietzsche sees behind this will the purpose of condemning people to remorse of conscience, making them reasonable, stable, controllable, passive. In the history of moral philosophy, concepts such as the opposition of values, responsibility, thing-in-itself, substantiality, ego, free will, the opposition of instinct, the action-actor distinction and the metaphysics of language have been used for this purpose. In this context, according to Nietzsche, décadence values emerged. The inevitable end of these values is nihilism. In order to overcome nihilism, it is necessary to re-evaluate values and create new values from the perspective of the will to power and Übermensch. This study examines Nietzsche’s path in this regard.

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