Nietzsche on Conflict and Pluralism of Legal Orders
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https://doi.org/10.24310/EstudiosNIETen.vi15.10795Keywords:
conflict, agon, substance ontology, equilibrium, lawAbstract
This paper examines Nietzsche’s philosophy of life against the background claim that conflict and struggle constitute an irreducible dimension of human existence at all levels and the attempt on the part of «agonistic theorists» to incorporate this claim into democratic theory. To begin with, Nietzsche’s philosophy of life is set out against traditional metaphysics (substance ontology) as a dynamic, relational ontology of conflict among powers without substance. Given this concept of life, what, then, are the political implications of Nietzsche commitment to life-affirmation and life-enhancement? Against the standard view that Nietzsche advocates domination and violence, it is argued that life is maximally enhanced when struggle (or tension) and plurality are maximised, and that struggle and plurality are maximised under conditions of an approximate equilibrium among more or less equal forces, and not under conditions of domination. This line of thought is applied to the question of the nature and status of law with the result that Nietzsche’s philosophy of life issues in an affirmation of a plurality of legal orders in constructive tension with one another, raising the question of the institutional conditions that would make this possible
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