AS PAIXÕES TRANSMUTADAS EM VIRTUDES. ACERCA DE UM DILEMA NO PENSAMENTO ÉTICO DE NIETZSCHE

We can find in the nietzschian thought the two basic processes of transmutation of passions into virtues: 1) in the ethics of nobility, the sublimation of passions into virtues engenders affirmative values and 2) in the slave morality, the passions are degraded into virtues, losing their original natural vigor. We will investigate in this article is if the two described processes have as result the depotentiation of passions and in what senses this depotentiation occurs.