UNIVERSAL MORAL SYSTEMS SHOULD BE REJECTED

UNIVERSAL MORAL SYSTEMS SHOULD BE REJECTED

1. UNIVERSALIZING MORAL COMPASSION IS DISHONEST AND DECEPTIVE

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher. BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL, 1978, p. 145 Every unselfish morality which takes itself as an absolute and seeks to apply itself to Everyman sins not

only against taste, but does worse: it is an incentive to sins of omission; it is one more seduction under the guise of philanthropy; it seduces and harms precisely the superior, rare, privileged natures. One must force the moralities to subordinate themselves first of all to the principle of rank; one must make their conscience conscious of their arrogance--until they can finally understand and agree that it is immoral to say “What is right for one is right for the other.”

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher. BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL, 1978, pp. 154-5

Is a moralist not the counterpart of a puritan? A man, that is, who takes morality as something

questionable, questionmark-worthy, in short, problematic? Isn’t moralizing--immoral?

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher. BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL, 1978, p. 206 Slave-morality is essentially a utility-morality. Here is the cornerstone for the origin of that famous Antithesis “good vs. evil.” Power and dangerousness, a certain frightfulness, subtlety and strength which do not permit of despisal, are felt to belong to evil. Hence according to slave morality, the “evil” man inspires fear, according to master morality, the “good” man does and wants to, whereas the “bad” man is felt to be despicable.

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher. BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL, 1978, p. 143

The making of moral judgments and condemnations is the favorite revenge of those of limited mind on those whose mind is less so; it is also a sort of compensation for having been ill-favored by nature; but ultimately it is an opportunity to get a mind and to become more subtle. For malice spiritualizes people. It does them good at the bottom of their hearts to know there is a standard by which they and those who seem to them over-endowed with intellectual goods and privileges are measured alike.
5. MORALIZATION ONLY A TOOL TO BUILD POLITICAL SUPERIORITY

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher. “The Genealogy of Morals.” THE PHILOSOPHY OF NIETZSCHE, 1954, p. 640

Above all, there is no exception (though there are opportunities for exceptions) to this rule, that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority, in those cases where the highest caste is at the same time the priestly caste, and in accordance with its general characteristics confers upon itself the privilege of a title which alludes specifically to its priestly function. It is in these cases, for instances, that “clean” and “unclean” confront each other for the first time as badges of class distinction; here again there develops a “good” and a “bad,” in a sense which has ceased to be merely social.

MORAL SYSTEMS ARE BAD FOR HUMANITY

1. PERSONAL ETHICS OF EQUALITY AND COMPASSION ARE DESTROYED IF ONE TRIES TO MAKE THEM BASIC OR UNIVERSAL VALUES

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher. BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL, 1978, p. 201

To refrain from wounding, violating, and exploiting one another, to acknowledge another’s will as equal to one s own: this can become proper behavior, in a certain coarse sense, between individuals when the conditions for making it possible obtain (namely the factual similarity of the individuals as to power and standards of value, and their co-existence in one greater body). But as soon as one wants to extend this principle, to make it the basic principle of society, it shows itself for what it is: the will to negate life, the principle of dissolution and decay.

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher. BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL, 1978, p. 151

In man there is united both creature and creator; in man there is material, fragment, excess, clay, filth, nonsense, and chaos. But in man there is also creator, image-maker, hammer-hardness, spectator-divinity, and day of rest: do you understand this antithesis? And do you understand that your compassion is spent on the “creature” in man, on that which must be formed, broken, forged, torn, burnt, brought to white heat, purified, on all that which must necessarily suffer and ought to suffer!
4. EMBRACING ANY VALUE BLOCKS HUMAN PROGRESS

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher. BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL, 1978, pp. 106-7 Since at all times, as long as there have been human beings, there have been human herds (clan unions, communities, tribes, nation states, churches) and very many who obeyed compared with very few who were in command; since, therefore, obedience was the trait best and longest exercised and cultivated among men, one may be justified in assuming that on the average it has become an innate need, a kind of formal conscience that bids “thou shalt do something or other,” in other words, “thou shalt.” This need seeks to satisfy itself and to fill its form with some content. Depending on how strong, impatient, and tense it is, it seizes upon all things with little discrimination, like a gross appetite, and accepts whatever meets its ear, whatever any representative of authority (parents, teachers, laws, class prejudices, public opinion) declaims into it. The strange limitation of human evolution, the factors that make for hesitation, protractedness, retrogression, and circular paths, is due to the fact that the herd-instinct of obedience is best inherited at the expense of knowing how to command.