On the Love of Virtue Without Moralizing: Who Is the Nietzschean Virtuous Person?

Abstract

According to Nietzsche’s statement that metaphysics operates in the
moral sense of denaturalization and spiritualization passions, introducing them to the
state of evil to be combated by institutions universally shared values and controlling the
being and activity – religion, science, philosophy - I will try here to address the
exposure of the metaphysics of the passions produced in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. To do
so, I take as a base, especially the speech "Of joys and passions," to which others also
come to join. Thinking deny the passions in favor of conceptual knowledge
representational – that rationality, consciousness the deified metaphysical truth,
preventing, therefore, research on the value of truth, that is, the elements that, in
addition to what could be the nature of truth underlying the relationship themselves as
creators of their philosophies, they have the truth. The persecution of passions, then, is
the director of metaphysical passion.  Symptom of a dominant drive comes from her orders in, unconscious, emotional, passionate. Contrary to the dualist tradition 
rationalist and subjectivist – the philosophy of Nietzsche equates life and passion,
identifying the engine in the affective dimension of human activity, including thinking
there.