Sense and defense of law and justice in Nietzsche

Abstract

This article aims to analyze Nietzsche's approaches to the cultural role of justice and law in the development of Western civilization, linked in his work to the genealogical analysis of morality. The centrality of obedience to the law in the passage of human beings from their natural state to their condition as beings of culture is explained; also the function of that imposition of the law in the possibility of life in society, and the reasons for Nietzsche's defense of justice and law as socially shaping and structuring forces. The reasons for his rejection of the anarchist and anti-semitic proposals that place the origin of justice in revenge and resentment are then analyzed, and the internal relationship between law and the will to power is exposed. It concludes, finally, with Nietzsche's criticism of the conception and practice of law in the modern conception of it.