Autossupressão moral e perdão: Nietzsche e Derrida

Abstract

This dissertation aims to relate the Nietzschean notion of moral self-suppression, especially the self-suppression of justice, with Derrida's theoretical construction of forgiveness from the late 1990's. We argue that when Nietzsche demonstrates the process of self-suppression of justice in which it is called grace (Gnade) we can speak of forgiveness in an extramoral sense, that is, as pathos. Derrida's treatment of forgiveness can be understood in the same way, for, by "defining it" as an event and therefore unpredictable and breaking with any calculation and strategy, forgiveness is irreducible to any conceptualization, allowing us to state that we are also in the pathos regime.