Beyond Good and Evil: 6 key ideas
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- IDEA 1 OF 6
Question morality
Moral values have histories and serve interests.
Ask where a value came from and whom it serves.
- IDEA 2 OF 6
Master and slave morality
Nietzsche contrasts values created by the confident (good versus bad) with those born of resentment (good versus evil).
- IDEA 3 OF 6
Will to power
Life seeks to grow, express strength and shape its world, not merely to survive.
- IDEA 4 OF 6
Perspectivism
There are no views from nowhere, only perspectives.
More perspectives give a fuller picture.
- IDEA 5 OF 6
Free spirits
The philosophers of the future will question everything, including themselves, and create values.
- IDEA 6 OF 6
Certainty is lazy
Dogma spares people the work of thinking.
Hold convictions loosely.
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