A genealogia como programa de pesquisa naturalista

Abstract

Nietzsche was not only attentive to the contributions empirical sciences could make to moral psychology, but he also advocated the development of a scientifically informed moral philosophy. The purpose of this paper is twofold: it starts defending a naturalistic reading of Nietzsche’s genealogical program and then relates it to contemporary genealogical approaches to moral philosophy. In order to achieve this objective, the paper addresses two main questions: first, how justified is the naturalistic reading that takes Nietzsche to be committed to the methodological thesis of the continuity between science and philosophy; second, what kind of solution (if any) Nietzsche offers to the traditional philosophical concerns involving the relationship between the descriptive and the normative.