For an understanding of “hope” in the emergence of “man of the future” at the end of the Second Treatise on the Genealogy of Morals

Abstract

The thought of the eternal return of the same, although at the heart of Nietzsche's late philosophy, is not directly addressed in the Genealogy of Morality. This does not mean that it is absent from this work, nor could it be since the philosopher saw in the cosmological possibility of returning a new measure of value for an attempt to overcome nihilism. Carrying out the genealogical examination without considering the thought of the eternal return is, therefore, not paying attention to the fact that such an examination is not reduced to the diagnosis and criticism of morality but is carried out with a view to overcoming it. The question that arises from the beginning is, therefore, twofold: in what way is the thought of the eternal return present in the work? And why didn't Nietzsche explore it conceptually? The answer lies in the understanding of "hope" in the emergence of the "man of the future" - mentioned at the end of the Second Treatise on the Genealogy of Morality.

Keywords Nietzsche; Eternal Return; Genealogy of morals; Hope; Man of the future.