PSC 2343 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: For Marx, Great Fear, Liberal Democracy
10 Jan 2018
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Friedrich nietzsche, beyond good and evil (part v) He is an unfriendly critic on the right of democracy. He thinks that liberal democracy should be overturned. This is the natural history of morals (in the plural; not just morality). There is not just one moral code for human beings. There are many different understandings of right and wrong for human beings. European morality is just one of many moral codes. There is ancient morality, medieval morality, modern morality, etc. The concept of history we have only arises in the 19th century. This is because we think history is coming to an end, and we want to preserve the past. He is influenced by darwin and his theory of evolution. This is part of the 19th century historicist movement. Previous thinkers would look at what is natural for human beings, but the historicist movement led to a shift to looking at history.
