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Single Idea 4558

[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / c. Value of happiness ]

Full Idea

One has no right to 'happiness': the individual human being is in precisely the same case as the lowest worm.

Gist of Idea

We have no more right to 'happiness' than worms

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §759)

Book Ref

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'The Will to Power', ed/tr. Kaufmann,W /Hollingdate,R [Vintage 1968], p.399

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A Reaction

This seems an obvious truth, but nicely made clear. It is, I suppose, aimed at Christians and socialists.