Journal de Etica y Cine

Volumen 14 | N° 1

Happiness beyond good and evil

Andrea Fernández González

Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

Abstract

Philosophy and cinema find a new meeting point through the figure of Hannibal Lecter. The protagonist of a multitude of audiovisual productions and narratives based on real events, this psychiatrist puts forward the hypothesis of a concept of happiness that goes beyond good and evil. From the point of view of Nietzsche’s philosophy, the possibility of moral autonomy is underlined, which makes us contemplate this anthropophagist as a candidate who fulfills the requirements and features of Nietzsche’s superman. The ethical criticisms and reticence are manifest for a thought that is close, among others, to traditional Christian and Platonic morality. Nevertheless, throughout the pages of the book under review, we can see how the need for a deployment of the will to power from individuality is persevered with. Thus, despite the discordant voices, the importance of an understanding of good and evil will be highlighted, which will be subordinated to a happiness linked to praxis.

Keywords: morality | happiness | autonomy | Hannibal | Nietzsche

This article is, for the time being, only available in Spanish: La felicidad más allá del bien y del mal

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Etica y Cine (Ethics & Films) is a Peer Reviewed Quarterly Journal Edited by
Department of Psychoanalysis and Department of Deontology, School of Psychology, National University of Cordoba, Argentina
Department of Psychology, Ethics and Human Rights, School of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
With the collaboration of:
Center for Medical Ethics (CME), Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
Under the auspicious of:
The International Network of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics.

Happiness beyond good and evil

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