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A review by casparb
On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
3.0
Did I say I was done with Nietzsche? Someone had blundered. This is a neat little tying up of the ideas entertained primarily in BG&E.
I'm not interested in presenting some sort of philosophical retort here. Nietzsche doesn't explicitly establish the dimensions of his ideal society, but the overall picture gleaned is particularly bleak to me. The suggestion that all action - including compassionate action - is reducible to the Will to Power perhaps is an example of the protofascistic reputation sometimes applied to Nietzsche.
His analysis of two overriding moralities dooms future societies to the endless Reichenbachian tumbling of strong and weak, rocks below impossible.
I'm not interested in presenting some sort of philosophical retort here. Nietzsche doesn't explicitly establish the dimensions of his ideal society, but the overall picture gleaned is particularly bleak to me. The suggestion that all action - including compassionate action - is reducible to the Will to Power perhaps is an example of the protofascistic reputation sometimes applied to Nietzsche.
His analysis of two overriding moralities dooms future societies to the endless Reichenbachian tumbling of strong and weak, rocks below impossible.