Abstract

This article aims to analyze the concept of responsibility in the work of Friedrich Nietzsche as part of his critique of Western morality and, as a consequence, his philosophical task of pushing such morality towards self-suppression. To accomplish this, the article seeks to demonstrate the centrality that the concept of responsibility holds, according to the philosopher, in the history of moral sentiments, particularly when linked to the ideas of guilt, punishment, and freedom. The argument will be grounded in the concept of "great responsibility" [großen Verantwortlichkeit], whose expression encapsulates the task of suppression in pursuit of a theory of the innocence of becoming.