Resentment and suicide in Nietzsche: the loss of the meaning of life as the loss of the right to life

• Grant number: 23/04901-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: September 01, 2023
• End date: December 09, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: Oswaldo Giacoia Junior
• Grantee: Lucas Pires Ramos
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The current project seeks to understand the relationship between resentment and suicide for Nietzsche in the passive experience of some sufferers in the cultural-historical moment of complete nihilism, taking the conceptual analyse of "suicide", "resentment", "ascetic ideal" and "nihilism" as the guiding thread. With the establishment of this relationship, resentment would not only be a sickliness in which the sufferer is unhappy with others, with life and with himself, but could also, in its last configuration, lead the sufferer to suicide.