The Sun and The Moon Shine Together -- Taking Nietzsche as an Example of The Relationship Between Literature And Morality

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Nietzsche; Literature and morality; Metaphysics of art

Abstract

To borrow Nietzsche’s saying: Morality originates from the lies of the weak. This kind of lie is a tool with the brand of class, acting power, just like the rational illusion in the “spirit of the sun” -- under the sun, lies everywhere, are the shadow of order. In this situation of public anesthesia, artistic metaphysics stepped onto the historical stage through the mechanism of “saving lives”. From Nietzsche summarized by Heidegger, we can divide artistic metaphysics into three paths: art and power will, art and existence, art and truth, and further elaborate the enlightenment of literature and art on life -- facing the individual’s tragedy in the destruction of destiny, turning tragic intoxication into aesthetic pleasure, and realizing the eternity of life will in pain and ecstasy. As far as the relationship between morality and literature and art is concerned, if morality is compared to “daylight” and “wall”, then the corresponding literature and art are “Moonlight” and “gap in the wall”, which are entangled and advanced with each other like the sun and moon shining together. Human beings can neither lose the protection of the “wall” nor lose the “gap” of freedom of snooping. “Sun” and “moon”, “wall” and “gap”, together build up human civilization, and under the sun and moon, the human beings in the wall, also promote the process of civilization.

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