Pojmovi morala i herojstva u Ničeovoj filozofiji
The Ideas of Morality and Heroism in Nietzsche’s Philosophy

Summary/Abstract: Author’s main intention shows two horizons of understanding Nietzsche’s philosophy: first one, ethical, reflects Nietzsche’s attempt to confront “harmful”, Socratic idea of morality with vivid, pre-Socratic idea of heroism; while the second one, aesthetical, deals with Nietzsche’s understanding of tragedy, as an authentic paradigm of Hellenic life in all its forms. Regarding the first horizon, it’s important to show Nietzsche’s attempt to exclude clear boundaries between mans theoretical, practical and poetical area, because he tries to replace practical idea of morality with an idea of heroism, and a creative principle, which is basically poetical. It’s the same, although heterogeneous, ground of Nietzsche’s philosophy that develop his understanding of tragedy. He is trying to build a certain wall between the early-Hellenic idea of justice and rational and philosophical understanding of morality, but it’s the early period of Hellenic tragedy that expresses the authentic process of creation of moral consciousness in Hellenic history, because neither the ethical, cognitive nor educational purposes cannot be excluded from the tragedy as the art form of one era. These problems lead to the weakest point of Nietzsche’s philosophy: his necessity to remove the decadent tissue of the era he is contemplating, often leads to the removal of its healthiest tissue as well.

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