The utopian character of happiness. A reading from Ortega y Gasset

Abstract

The present study aims at delving into a certain perspective of the Nietzschean philosophy, namely, the links that the German philosopher established between art and power. His aristocratism, far from being merely spiritual, is also social and political. Nietzsche is starkly diaphanous in many of his approaches, considering that he argued that the optimal conditions for the emergence of a great artistic development, carried out by a select and brilliant minority, may only occur if a vast majority of the population lives under slave labor. For the “higher man” to thrive, a maximum level of exploitation of the lower type of man is required. According to this study, such a Nietzschean thesis, closely related to
others of his philosophemes, is descriptive and normative.