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Single Idea 18293
[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / f. Übermensch
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Full Idea
The noble man wants to create new things and a new virtue. The good man wants the old things and that the old things shall be preserved.
Gist of Idea
The noble man wants new virtues; the good man preserves what is old
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Thus Spake Zarathustra [1884], 1.09)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Thus Spake Zarathustra', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1969], p.71
A Reaction
There is a limit to how many plausible virtues the noble men can come up with. We may already have run out. Are we going to have to re-run the Iliad?
Related Idea
Idea 23910
Greatness of soul produces all the virtues - and vice versa [Aristotle]
The
18 ideas
with the same theme
[moral visionaries as the source of ethical systems]:
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Plato found that he could only enforce rational moral justification by creating an authoritarian society
[Williams,B on Plato]
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5234
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For the great-souled man it is sometimes better to be dead
[Aristotle]
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23358
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Every species produces exceptional beings, and we must just accept their nature
[Epictetus]
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20138
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Christianity is at war with the higher type of man, and excommunicates his basic instincts
[Nietzsche]
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23440
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Nietzsche's judgement of actions by psychology instead of outcome was poisonous
[Foot on Nietzsche]
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2883
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Noble people see themselves as the determiners of values
[Nietzsche]
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23208
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Caesar and Napoleon point to the future, when they pursue their task regardless of human sacrifice
[Nietzsche]
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23193
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Napoleon was very focused, and rightly ignored compassion
[Nietzsche]
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20141
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Higher human beings see and hear far more than others, and do it more thoughtfully
[Nietzsche]
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4408
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The concept of 'good' was created by aristocrats to describe their own actions
[Nietzsche]
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23716
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A strong rounded person soon forgets enemies, misfortunes, and even misdeeds
[Nietzsche]
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14810
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Originally it was the rulers who requited good for good and evil for evil who were called 'good'
[Nietzsche]
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20136
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There is an extended logic to a great man's life, achieved by a sustained will
[Nietzsche]
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20358
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The highest man can endure and control the greatest combination of powerful drives
[Nietzsche]
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20369
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The highest man directs the values of the highest natures over millenia
[Nietzsche]
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8041
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The superman is a monstrous oddity, not a serious idea
[MacIntyre on Nietzsche]
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20135
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Nietzsche's higher type of man is much more important than the idealised 'superman'
[Nietzsche, by Leiter]
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18293
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The noble man wants new virtues; the good man preserves what is old
[Nietzsche]
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