Nietzsche

I find much of Nietzsche repulsive and obscene.

Nietzsche describes a world without God and bereft of objective truth. He states in Genealogy of Morals, "To speak of right and wrong per se makes no sense at all" (188).

What Nietzsche describes as "pursuit of affirmation" sounds more like extreme narcissism to me (186). To wit, "No act of violence, rape, exploitation, destruction, is intrinsically unjust" (188). This isn't a philosophy to build a society -- it's a blank check for a "Superman [to] overcome the herd" (187).

Good is "all that enhances the feeling of power" (188). Every week I work with men who have exerted power over other individuals. We don't refer to their actions as good, we call the actions as they are, namely, abuse.

WORK CITED

Pojman, Louis J. Who Are We. New York: Oxford, 2006.