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#96 - The Nature of Consciousness

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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Nietzsche's Misinterpretation of Morals

The story on Nietzsche as far as I know is that basically he was misused by his sister and the Nazis. His philosophy really is only in its misinterpretation, something that could be useful to the worldview of Nazism. That's of course a long story. But of course he couldn't be a fascist and he couldn’t be a Nazi because he cannot be that. He also technically, I don't regard him as a philosopher because in my view, doesn't have a serious interest in the growth of knowledge. She's more a racist writer. If you look at the genealogy of morals and you imagine you're a young German, then what you take away from it is

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