Brian Leiter
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530 appearances
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first heard Sep 2009
last heard Sep 2010
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So on my picture, right, because
Because Nietzsche has this view that people, and again, this is not that uncommon in a 19th-century view, and I think it's uh it's in the background for Nietzsche, that people have different essential sort of psychophysical characteristics.
There are different types of people.
He sometimes just puts this in terms of talking about lower and higher types or slavish and noble types and categories like that.
And Nietzsche's real concern is that.
That there are people who might be higher types of human beings.
And for Nietzsche, the paradigms of the highest types of human beings are creative geniuses.
Goethe is the paramount example.
Nobody is treated more reverentially in the corpus than Goethe.
Nietzsche, I think, also thinks that Nietzsche is an example of the relevant kind of creative genius.
And so then his picture is something like this: it's that.
Nascent hier types, people who might potentially be Goethe's, Nietzsche's, Beethoven's, right?
And also Napoleon's, though Napoleon's a complicated example for his purpose, that these hierarchies won't in fact realize the kind of excellence of which they're capable if they continue to take morality in the pejorative sense seriously, right?
So it's bad for their flourishing.
That's sort of the core thought here.
And he's got a sort of speculative
Of moral psychology about why it's bad for their flourishing.
That means the real question, and so I'm coming back to reformulating Matt your question.
The key question then becomes: how are we to disabuse potentially higher types of human beings of their essentially false consciousness about morality?
That is, their false belief that this morality, morality in the pejorative sense, is really good for them, right?
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