| dc.description.abstract | This paper proposes to think the crisis of references as an assumption by where is a contemporary issue of ethical reasoning. Based on the reflection on nihilism, the aim is to understand how was the weakening of the moral tradition of thought in Western view, previously diagnosed from the thinker Friedrich Nietzsche, as devaluation of the highest values. This work directly contemplate the thought of German philosopher; however, will remain in a reading built from the perspective of the French Jesuit philosopher Paul Valadier, whose works invite us to understand the nihilism of the problem, with the central perspective an assessment that unfolds in an analysis about the crisis and its values consequences for the contemporary world. The French author, from the advances of scientific rationality with the advent of the modern era, the traditions have been challenged, questioned, or even rejected. With this, install the impossibility of answers to moral questions that arise, since the human being becomes responsible for defining their actions and their thinking in the world. The result is the emergence of moral relativism that develops as a consequence of the process of anarchy of values, provided that the absence of the ordering principle and ranking of these originating in design sense, orderly world, but from the traditions. In this sense, is made to realize the importance of Nietzsche. To Valadier, there is no doubt that the German philosopher contributed more than many for this moral shock. Hence Nietzsche's diagnosis is taken in this work considering their relevance for various aspects: both as regards the criticism of values, Christian morality, when the importance given to genealogical method by which it becomes possible to understand the factors that led to tradition lose its force of action, when it is revealed its nihilistic sense hidden under the values considered most supreme. | en |
