@article{Sooväli_2017, place={Goiânia}, title={SHOOTING AT VIRTUE}, volume={21}, url={https://revistas.ufg.br/philosophos/article/view/42974}, DOI={10.5216/phi.v21i2.42974}, abstractNote={<p>Nietzsche is known as a great and poignant critic of the Judeo-Christian virtue and morality, but the motivation and aim of his criticisms might sometimes remain unclear. For instance, in <em>Twilight of the Idols</em>, he writes: “Are we harming virtue, we immoralists? – Just as little as anarchists <em>harm</em> princes. Princes sit securely on their thrones only after they’ve been shot at. Moral: <em>morality must be shot at</em>.” This saying seems to suggest that Nietzsche criticized and attacked traditional virtue and morality in order to consolidate and strengthen them. In the article, I provide an interpretation of this saying and, in the course of it, approach Nietzsche’s reconceptualization of virtue and morality more generally. </p>}, number={2}, journal={Philósophos - Revista de Filosofia}, author={Sooväli, Jaanus}, year={2017}, month={jan.}, pages={107–126} }