Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche founded his morality on what he saw as the most basic human drive, the will to power. Nietzsche criticized Christianity and other philosophers’ moral systems as “slave moralities” because, in his view, they chained all members of society with universal rules of ethics. Nietzsche offered, in contrast, a “master morality” that prized the creative influence of powerful individuals who transcended the common rules of society.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm; Philosophy, Western; Europe; German Literature

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