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> Where did I get the idea that popular people were malevolent? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%E2%80%93slave_morality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maste
by throwaway876123 7y ago
> Where did I get the idea that popular people were malevolent?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%E2%80%93slave_morality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%E2%80%93slave_morality
- everdrive 7y agoThanks, I've seen this idea espoused, but didn't realize it had a formal name, or originated with Nietzsche. I'll read further.
- pwodhouse 7y agoIt's my older. Aesop published the gable of Sour Grapes.
- chongli 7y agoThe general concept is much older than even Nietzsche. I would put it at least as far back as the account of Thrasymachus in Plato's Republic[1], a critique of Socrates' concept of justice: I proclaim that justice is nothing else than the interest of the stronger [1] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1497/1497-h/1497-h.htm https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1497/1497-h/1497-h.htm