PHILOS 2YY3 Chapter Nietzsche: Reading 4 - Nietzsche "Beyond Good and Evil"
3 Apr 2018
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Reading 4 - nietzsche: beyond good and evil. Insane man was yelling out he was seeking god" , everyone laughed: he says we have killed him: god is dead. All societies depictions of a man" is the work of the society itself, and always will be. Without our natural differences, other more serious things could never have arisen (he calls these pathos"). This includes: the longing for a new identify of the soul itself, the formation of an extension of the description of man". On corruption: cities corrupt when their virtue becomes abandoned, in a good and healthy aristocracy, should not regard itself as either a function of kingship or commonwealth but rather as the significance and highest justification of both. Society is not allowed to exist for its own sake, but only as a function to a higher existence. Life itself, he says, is essentially appropriation, injury, weak, suppression, and exploitation.
