Nietzsche on Morality
Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS
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The Slave Revolt in Morality
The ancient world had its priests. The pre christian world certainly had its philosophers. Wealth wasn't just wealth, it was absolute power. And were narrow elites. This is still a highly hierarchical, highly elitist version of the human experience. But out of shame and guilt comes the opportunity for the many to get their claws into the few. It creates the opening for the decisive move in nature's genealogy which he calls 'the slave revolt'
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