This is to make-up the symposium on Wednesday, April 8th for a tennis match.
Nietzsche liked to refer to people who shared a mass psychology as “the rabble”. He favored the idea of individualism instead. Nietzsche believed that society would be unhappy if they followed one moral system and instead believes that people should decide for themselves what is right or wrong, being their own moral compass.
My argument is that some people are inherently leaders or followers. By Nietzsche’s philosophy, if everyone chose their own moral beliefs, then it would fail because leaders would gain followers and ultimately society would be divided. The people’s will to gain power would cause them to take control of others lives once again as with many other failed societies in the past. This is how we end up with regimes like the one that Adolf Hitler undertook.
There is too much drive for power if everyone has his or her own morals. Eventually someone would rise up. Instead, society should be based on equality. If it were based on equality then people would be numbed to the will for power and would focus on making other people happy, thus making themselves happy in the process.
Nietzsche liked to refer to people who shared a mass psychology as “the rabble”. He favored the idea of individualism instead. Nietzsche believed that society would be unhappy if they followed one moral system and instead believes that people should decide for themselves what is right or wrong, being their own moral compass.
My argument is that some people are inherently leaders or followers. By Nietzsche’s philosophy, if everyone chose their own moral beliefs, then it would fail because leaders would gain followers and ultimately society would be divided. The people’s will to gain power would cause them to take control of others lives once again as with many other failed societies in the past. This is how we end up with regimes like the one that Adolf Hitler undertook.
There is too much drive for power if everyone has his or her own morals. Eventually someone would rise up. Instead, society should be based on equality. If it were based on equality then people would be numbed to the will for power and would focus on making other people happy, thus making themselves happy in the process.
I dare to challenge that and side with Nietzsche. The reason being that we already possess free-will. We already own our lives and are left to decide how to live it. To an extent I can relate to you, in the overpowering of some individuals, but for the most part I believe Nietzsche is talking about being able to discern right and wrong. I mean if God, whom is omnipotent and omnipresent has given us the freedom to live our lives how we want, why should human come and try to change that? The fact that human wants to set all these rules on how THEY believe life should be lived is also how we end up with regimes like that of Adolf Hitler. Regardless of which way it is addressed, it inevitably leads to the same conclusion.
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