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    A pequena política em Nietzsche
    (Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), 2019-04-08) Ribeiro, Marco Antonio Sabatini [UNIFESP]; Burnett Junior, Henry Martin [UNIFESP]; Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
    Often, the petty politics is associated with Nietzsche‟s critique of nationalism, parliamentarism and anti-Semitism, and opposed to great politics. Because it appears only in three published passages and in two posthumous fragments, it seems devoid of a proper and complex conceptual development. We argue, however, that such aphorisms enable us a more robust argument. Related to the weakening of the will, modern petty politics derives, more refined and intensified, from the millennial project of domestication of human forces originated in the Platonic-Socratic philosophy and Christianity. Our hypothesis is that it establishes a human type based on gregarious instincts (fear, comfort, security and happiness) in order to preserve itself. Consequently, its political rationality mobilizes the human forces so that they concentrate on superfluous subjects, ideals and objectives and are unable to overcome the existential limits established by the petty people of modernity. Institutions (State, family, church, educational and labor establishments) constantly forge and educate their individuals so that they turn their attention to themselves and, therefore, become physiologically exhausted, consuming and squandering their strength through mediocrity. In other words, the modern individuals establish subjects and means in order to weaken themselves. “Powerful” is, in this gregarious sense, who can best conserve one‟s own political and moral structures. Therefore, to have more “power” one must be physiologically weaker and more cunning, causing an intensification in the processes of domestication and conservation. It creates a paradox in which the less fear and more comfort, security and happiness are desired, the more fear and less comfort, security and happiness one has. Nationalism, anti-Semitism and parliamentarism are mere consequences of this logic (similar to fanaticism, the hypocrisy of rulers and modern philosophies); but quickly become the foundation of modernity which, in its turn, is elevated constantly to new intensities of domestication and gregarism.