How absurd. A system of thought that sneers at morality and instead constructs a simplistic system predicated on primitive notions of the "strong" and the "weak"?
And the Nazis' mistake was taking this "literally"?
What complete and utter rubbish.
Slave Morality and beyond Good and Evil
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How absurd. A system of thought that sneers at morality and instead constructs a simplistic system predicated on primitive notions of the "strong" and the "weak"?
And the Nazis' mistake was taking this "literally"?
What complete and utter rubbish.
Kinde version of this book is free: [ame=http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Good-and-Evil-ebook/dp/B004TS9SB6/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1368255597&sr=1-1&keywords=beyond+Good+and+Evil]Beyond Good and Evil: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Helen Zimmern: Amazon.com: Kindle Store[/ame]
Nietzsche is good in my book.
Powerful words right there.
"To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities - I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not - that one endures."
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=280Ev9h_C3c"]06 - Nietzsche on Hardship - Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness - YouTube[/ame]
But Schopenhauer takes the cake.
Powerful words right there.
"To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities - I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not - that one endures."
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=280Ev9h_C3c"]06 - Nietzsche on Hardship - Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness - YouTube[/ame]
But Schopenhauer takes the cake.
You don't need authority to make any claim. Claims are not validated by authority.
Superiority is subjective and in the eye of the beholder.
That said, I am pretty sure I am a superior human.
Sounds like acute narcissism to me.
Point #1 & #2 I completely agree with, though. Those were my thoughts.
Although, I can't subscribe to Nietzsche's ideas on Slave/Master morality nor his idea of superiority. It's all primitive monkey-brained shit to me.
Humans will always find some excuse to feel elitist, I suppose. Nothing new or superior about that. When are we going to evolve? Seriously?
Nietschze believed that the ubermensch or noble man defines his own morality to guide his own actions. The slave, the herd does not use morality to guide their actions but as a tool to bring others down to their levels of incompetence.
Morality only exists for the noble man. That is what Nietschze actually meant.
It's also worth noting that Nietzche did not believ that intelligence in itself makes the nobleman/ubermensch. You need courage and bravery too. The intelligent but fearful became the main propaganders of slave morality such as marxists, christian priests, feminists etc.
