Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Nietzsche Notes

  • Every society has a Moral Horizon
    • they inform citizens what is morally right and wrong

  • the moral horizon allowed the weak, the incompetent, and the stupid to be eliminated through a natural process
  • Society now unquestionably accepts Christian morality as a transcendent “moral horizon”
  • all horizons are man-made perspectives in constant flux- not absolute truths
  • no truth outside man and society
  • life has no meaning before we give it meaning
  • every perspective is limiting and incomplete
  • once we realize that we are the creators of human values, we are free to choose whatever values are best
  • for Nietzsche, Christianity replaces a Master Morality with a Slave Morality
  • to be great, we must break away for false thinking
  • christianity creates mediocrity
  • Nietzsche dislikes democracy, socialism, and communism
  • dislikes the mass thinking
  • Christianity leads man to hate himself and battle against himself
  • our science kills god and our belief in absolutes
  • the death of god will liberate others
  • Superman is part poet, philosopher, saint

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