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I disagree. Sure, power rules the world, everyone knows it and knew it before Nietzsche, "good" and "bad" are the results of the choice of people to tune up or
by tarsinge 8y ago
I disagree. Sure, power rules the world, everyone knows it and knew it before Nietzsche, "good" and "bad" are the results of the choice of people to tune up or down their desire for individualistic power over other's people good. I fail to see how Nietzsche is innovative on our understanding of this, I mean that's even the core teaching of christian philosophy.
What's original in Nietszche thought is not that power rules the world and that people are longing for it, it is the challenge of the western and christian values that power and individualism is "bad".
- BucketSort 8y agoIt wasn't that he just talked about power ruling the world, that wasn't his main thing, he critiqued what people use it for and what the ultimate aim of it should be. He deepened our understanding of what power IS. For Nietzsche, most people possess a fake type of power, they simply use it to maintain "wretched complacency." I think the ultimate conclusion he made was that the most noble goal we can have is to overcome ourselves, and when power is used for that purpose, it is great. "What is great in man is that he is a bridge, not an end." If you are satisfied with complacency, with pleasure seeking modern society, you will hate him.