Agonal human rights : a re-evaluation of democracy through Nietzsche’s physio-psychology of will to power

This chapter addresses how the ontology of will to power, by means of its agonal understanding of society, can transform Human Rights into a physiopsychological framework for human thriving, allowing great individuals to come into being through maximising diversity and safeguarding democracy from the dangers of uniformisation. It argues that through his ontology of will to power, Nietzsche is able to present an integrated idea of humankind, characterised by a recursive interaction between the environment, the intellect and the body and delivers a philosophical ontology to ground Human Rights on a different basis than within a universal, rationalistic or liberal framework. If Human Rights could be backed by scientific findings on basic human needs, this would allow us to remodel Human Rights as preconditions for actualising the (maximum) range of human possibilities.

ISBN:9783110688436

Jaar van publicatie:2022

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