Single Idea 24116

[catalogued under 25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 1. Grounds of equality]

Full Idea

People are not equal: thus speaks justice. …Humans should keep becoming ever more unequal.

Gist of Idea

Justice says people are not equal, and should become increasingly unequal

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1882-84 [1883], 12[43])

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from the period of 'Zarathustra' (v 14)', ed/tr. Loeb/Tinsley [Stanford 2019], p.367


A Reaction

Important to add a little dash of Nietzsche to the widespread modern mantras about equality. We must at least question the extent to which equality should be our aim. (Personally I am an egalitarian liberal).