'What have we to do with morals?' Nietzsche and Weber on history and ethics

Strong, Tracy B.

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“…Both Nietzsche and Weber stressed the importance of the problem of human suffering for the construction of cultural worldviews (Chowers, 2004;Reginster, 2006;Strong, 1992;Wilkinson, 2005). Nietzsche (1887Nietzsche ( /1964 noted: "Every art and every philosophy may be regarded as a healing and helping appliance in the service of growing, struggling life: they always presuppose suffering and sufferers" (p. 332).…”

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“…Among the most important needs of human societies is to give a meaningful account of suffering, one that will encourage individuals to continue pursuing socially relevant goals despite the realities of pain, chaos, and death. Both Nietzsche and Weber stressed the importance of the problem of human suffering for the construction of cultural worldviews (Chowers, 2004; Reginster, 2006; Strong, 1992; Wilkinson, 2005). Nietzsche (1887/1964) noted: “Every art and every philosophy may be regarded as a healing and helping appliance in the service of growing, struggling life: they always presuppose suffering and sufferers” (p. 332).…”

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From guilt-oriented to uncertainty-oriented culture: Nietzsche and Weber on the history of theodicy.

Sullivan

2013

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology

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A psychology of the emotions should recognize that culture grounds our experience of emotions, particularly existential emotions such as guilt and the anxiety of uncertainty. Nietzsche and Weber present historical models that emphasize the role of culture in solving the problem of theodicy-explaining seemingly unjust suffering-and thereby conditioning the individual's experience of emotion in response to suffering. More important, they identified the transition from cultural premodernity to modernity with the shift from guilt-oriented to uncertainty-oriented culture. Although individuals in premodern cultures tended to interpret suffering in terms of personal inadequacy and guilt, individuals in modern culture tend to interpret suffering in terms of uncertainty and disillusionment. In the present article I review the histories of theodicy of Nietzsche and Weber. This cultural-historical theory is applied to integrate diverse empirical findings from psychology and anthropology relevant to the relationship between culture and existential emotion and to enrich relevant contemporary theory.

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Section: A Nietzschean/weberian Conception Of Culturementioning

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Section: A Nietzschean/weberian Conception Of Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

From guilt-oriented to uncertainty-oriented culture: Nietzsche and Weber on the history of theodicy.

Sullivan

2013

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology

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“…No doubt a considerable conflict of interpretations will continue to rage over to the task of interpreting Nietzsche on these points (Kain 2007; 2009). It is now widely understood that in his comparative studies of religious cultures, Weber was working to cast the apprehension of human suffering articulated within Nietzsche's genealogy of morals in a sociological frame that makes clear its cultural contingencies, psychic consequences and bearing upon the dynamics of social change (Schroeder ; Strong ). In particular, the collection of essays published as The Sociology of Religion (1966a) along with ‘The Social Psychology of the World Religions’ (1948a) and ‘Religious Rejections of the World and Their Directions’ (1948b), are identified as some of the most important works in which he laboured to identify the cultural origins and ramifications of the conviction that the task of making adequate sense of suffering will always exceed our cultural capacities for sense making.…”

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The problem of suffering as a driving force of rationalization and social change

Wilkinson¹

2013

British Journal of Sociology

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This article documents and analyses a reconstructed Weberian conception of the problem of suffering. In this setting a focus is brought to how the problem of suffering is constituted in the dynamic interplay between, on the one hand, the compulsion to impose rational sense and order on the world, and on the other, the necessity to find a means to satiate charismatic needs. The discussion highlights Weber's account of the tendency for problems of suffering to increase in volume and scale along with the intensification and spread of modern processes of rationalization. It offers a case for the development of further sociological inquiries into the role played by experiences of the problem of suffering within the dynamics of social and cultural change.

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“…On Nietzsche and politics, see Kaufmann (1974), Hughes (1977, pp. 336-431), Love (1986), Schutte (1986), Thomas (1986), Strong (1988), Warren (1988), Durr (1988), Lapenies (1988), P. , Putz (1988), Taylor (1990), Aschheim (1992).…”

Section: Exploring Nietzsche's Antisociological Challengementioning

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Nietzsche's Antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History

Antonio¹

1995

American Journal of Sociology

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Although a very important figure in interdisciplinary social the ory, Nietzsche is absent from sociological theory, especially in the United States. Equating rationalization with cultural homogenization and liquidation of particularity, Nietzsche saw "decadence" where modern social theorists saw progress. He held that sociology drapes cultural domination, regimentation, and exhaustion with the appearance of legitimacy. This essay explores his views about the depletion of social resources stressed in modern theory. It elaborates his "antisociology" and then traces the impact of this framework on three divergent currents of social theory. Nietzsche is read against the backdrop of modern theory in order to explore his con tinuing challenge to this tradition and his relevance to sociology.

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'What have we to do with morals?' Nietzsche and Weber on history and ethics

Cited by 21 publications

References 6 publications

From guilt-oriented to uncertainty-oriented culture: Nietzsche and Weber on the history of theodicy.

From guilt-oriented to uncertainty-oriented culture: Nietzsche and Weber on the history of theodicy.

The problem of suffering as a driving force of rationalization and social change

Nietzsche's Antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History

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