Algumas considerações acerca da mistura de povos ou raças no pensamento de Nietzsche

Abstract

The mixture of races and peoples appears in contrasting ways in Nietzsche's texts. Sometimes the mixture is praised for its richness of characteristics, other times it is accused of being responsible for degeneration. The objectives of this article are: first, to investigate whether the second perspective is justified by a possible influence of Arthur de Gobineau's ideas; and second, whether we can, in the context of Nietzschean physiopsychology, find some positive role for the mixture. After we have established that: 1) the Nietzschean notion of race that fits the goals of his own philosophy, that is, multiplicity, continuous change and the creation of new cultures, is that of the cultural type; and 2) there is no reason to think of an influence of Gobineau on Nietzsche, we propose that the good European, the physiopsychological type that results from the mixture of European peoples, enables the elevation of culture.