Le ragioni della norma. Merito, responsabilità, giustizia in Platone e Nietzsche

The paper aims at finding an explicit connection between the thesis issued by Arthur Adkins in the volume “Merit and Responsibility” (1960) and Nietzschean theories about the change of moral lexicon in the transition from archaic Greece to the democratic one. The retrieval of this connection is particularly focused on the notions of “merit” and “responsibility” and on the role played by Plato's moral theory.