EP #44 | Ayn Rand’s Critique of Nietzsche’s Ethics
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Nietzsche's Ethics: A Psychobiological Understanding of Human Nature
Nicha believes in a conflictual and non-rationalist view of human nature derived from a psychobiological basis./nHuman beings are all trying to assert themselves and have an inbuilt drive - the will to power./nNicha arrays human beings along a spectrum with master types having more powerful drives and slave types having weaker drives./nMoral codes are a conscious formulation of one's instinctual drives and an expression of one's psychobiological type./nThere are two basic types of moral code - master morality and slave morality./nLife is essentially conflict and expropriation, and the master types are confident in power struggles and embrace the world as it is.
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