I believe the author misses Nietzsche's point. "Who is to say who is to say?" Yourself. In Nietzsche's view the individual should rise up against morals created to opress him. Who defines what is opression for each individual? The individual itself. Thus, as we examine a set of collective morals we see that they will mostly favor the "strong" and punish the weak, but in subtle ways. In a way similar to Marx's concept of alienation, where the core moral values of society are produced to justify a social and moral order where a rulling class sits on top of society and a lower class is opressed socially and morally.
Nietzsche views mostly take the questions of morals outside philosophy and put it on a political/power dynamics spectrum. Nietzsche tries to show a way to escape domination by demonstrating that altruism, when collectively morally lauded, may be only a tool of domination. And to escape this domination we should be aware of selfishness. Our own and of others.
He uses the example of cristian morality. In which altruism is revered and exalted, where te position of slave, where the feeling of pain and the act of sacrifice makes you closer to god. Isn't a moral system that puts value on suffering just a way to convince those who suffer that they are blessed a system who deludes people? Isn't a system that puts moral value on the weak a way to convince the weak to stay week?
"The meek shall inherit the earth" more then 2000 years have passed and they still have not. Egoism is treated as a tool to free the individual from the notion that his material weakness is spiritual strength
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I believe the author misses Nietzsche's point. "Who is to say who is to say?" Yourself. In Nietzsche's view the individual should rise up against morals created to opress him. Who defines what is opression for each individual? The individual itself. Thus, as we examine a set of collective morals we see that they will mostly favor the "strong" and punish the weak, but in subtle ways. In a way similar to Marx's concept of alienation, where the core moral values of society are produced to justify a social and moral order where a rulling class sits on top of society and a lower class is opressed socially and morally.
Nietzsche views mostly take the questions of morals outside philosophy and put it on a political/power dynamics spectrum. Nietzsche tries to show a way to escape domination by demonstrating that altruism, when collectively morally lauded, may be only a tool of domination. And to escape this domination we should be aware of selfishness. Our own and of others.
He uses the example of cristian morality. In which altruism is revered and exalted, where te position of slave, where the feeling of pain and the act of sacrifice makes you closer to god. Isn't a moral system that puts value on suffering just a way to convince those who suffer that they are blessed a system who deludes people? Isn't a system that puts moral value on the weak a way to convince the weak to stay week?
"The meek shall inherit the earth" more then 2000 years have passed and they still have not. Egoism is treated as a tool to free the individual from the notion that his material weakness is spiritual strength