The presence and the absence of custom in morality: a reading of Sophocles’ Antigone and the Plato’s Republic through Nietzsche

Abstract:

In this article, starting from the Nietzschean concept of custom ethics, we will present two visions of ethics in the Greek antiquity, which are, the one that prescribes the respect of tradition, in which rules the unconditionality of obedience and the one that follows and supersedes the anterior through the transposition of value to the imaginary plane. Arises then, the unconditionality of norm.

Keywords:
Customs Ethics; tradition; justice; action