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Ideas for Eubulides, Tom Clark and Friedrich Nietzsche

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23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 1. Ethical Egoism
4517 Egoism is inescapable, and when it grows weak, the power of love also grows weak [Nietzsche]
20248 People do nothing for their real ego, but only for a phantom ego created by other people [Nietzsche]
4409 Only the decline of aristocratic morality led to concerns about "egoism" [Nietzsche]
4518 The question about egoism is: what kind of ego? since not all egos are equal [Nietzsche]
4519 The ego is only a fiction, and doesn't exist at all [Nietzsche]
2885 The noble soul has reverence for itself [Nietzsche]
3259 Nietzsche rejects impersonal morality, and asserts the idea of living well [Nietzsche, by Nagel]
18327 A wholly altruistic morality, with no egoism, is a thoroughly bad thing [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 1. Contractarianism
4416 Basic justice is the negotiation of agreement among equals, and the imposition of agreement [Nietzsche]
4418 A masterful and violent person need have nothing to do with contracts [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 2. Golden Rule
4560 The Golden Rule prohibits harmful actions, with the premise that actions will be requited [Nietzsche]
20246 If you feel to others as they feel to themselves, you must hate a self-hater [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / a. Nature of virtue
4555 The great error is to think that happiness derives from virtue, which in turn derives from free will [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / b. Basis of virtue
14818 First morality is force, then custom, then acceptance, then instinct, then a pleasure - and finally 'virtue' [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / c. Particularism
2935 No two actions are the same [Nietzsche]
24109 Actual morality is more complicated and subtle than theory (which gets paralysed) [Nietzsche]
22475 Moral generalisation is wrong, because we should evaluate individual acts [Nietzsche, by Foot]
20134 Moralities extravagantly address themselves to 'all', by falsely generalising [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / d. Virtue theory critique
20103 You are mastered by your own virtues, but you must master them, and turn them into tools [Nietzsche]
20198 Many virtues are harmful traps, but that is why other people praise them [Nietzsche]
24132 After Socrates virtue is misunderstood, as good for all, not for individuals [Nietzsche]
22476 Nietzsche thought our psychology means there can't be universal human virtues [Nietzsche, by Foot]
7165 Virtue is wasteful, as it reduces us all to being one another's nurse [Nietzsche]
7193 Virtue for everyone removes its charm of being exceptional and aristocratic [Nietzsche]
20375 Virtues must be highly personal; if not, it is merely respect for a concept [Nietzsche]
2881 Virtue has been greatly harmed by the boringness of its advocates [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / b. Living naturally
4493 Be natural! But how, if one happens to be "unnatural"? [Nietzsche]
4494 Not "return to nature", for there has never yet been a natural humanity [Nietzsche]
4498 'Love your enemy' is unnatural, for the natural law says 'love your neighbour and hate your enemy' [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / c. Motivation for virtue
14817 The 'good' man does the moral thing as if by nature, easily and gladly, after a long inheritance [Nietzsche]
4511 We would avoid a person who always needed reasons for remaining decent [Nietzsche]
4512 Virtue is pursued from self-interest and prudence, and reduces people to non-entities [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character
7191 What does not kill us makes us stronger [Nietzsche]
24126 We contain multitudes of characters, which can brought into the open [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / f. The Mean
20372 The instinct of the herd, the majority, aims for the mean, in the middle [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / i. Absolute virtues
24110 Some things we would never do, even for the highest ideals [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / j. Unity of virtue
24103 You should not want too many virtues; one is enough [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues
20272 Honesty is a new young virtue, and we can promote it, or not [Nietzsche]
20240 The Jews treated great anger as holy, and were in awe of those who expressed it [Nietzsche]
20244 Christianity replaces rational philosophical virtues with great passions focused on God [Nietzsche]
20274 The cardinal virtues want us to be honest, brave, magnanimous and polite [Nietzsche]
20382 The four virtues are courage, insight, sympathy, solitude [Nietzsche]
7151 Courage, compassion, insight, solitude are the virtues, with courtesy a necessary vice [Nietzsche]
4510 A path to power: to introduce a new virtue under the name of an old one [Nietzsche]
4515 Modesty, industriousness, benevolence and temperance are the virtues of a good slave [Nietzsche]
4516 Many virtues are merely restraints on the most creative qualities of a human being [Nietzsche]
14809 All societies of good men give a priority to gratitude [Nietzsche]
18291 Virtues can destroy one another, through jealousy [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / c. Justice
14816 Justice (fairness) originates among roughly equal powers (as the Melian dialogues show) [Nietzsche]
4559 When powerless one desires freedom; if power is too weak, one desires equal power ('justice') [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / d. Courage
15606 Military idea: what does not kill me makes me stronger [Nietzsche]
20257 Cool courage and feverish bravery have one name, but are two very different virtues [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / e. Honour
4557 The supposed great lovers of honour (Alexander etc) were actually great despisers of honour [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / f. Compassion
14821 Apart from philosophers, most people rightly have a low estimate of pity [Nietzsche]
4425 The overcoming of pity I count among the noble virtues [Nietzsche]
2879 In ancient Rome pity was considered neither good nor bad [Nietzsche]
18328 Invalids are parasites [Nietzsche]
20112 Pity consoles those who suffer, because they see that they still have the power to hurt [Nietzsche]
4275 You cannot advocate joyful wisdom while rejecting pity, because the two are complementary [Scruton on Nietzsche]
4407 Plato, Spinoza and Kant are very different, but united in their low estimation of pity [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / h. Respect
20259 Teach youth to respect people who differ with them, not people who agree with them [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 4. External Goods / c. Wealth
18287 People now find both wealth and poverty too much of a burden [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 4. External Goods / d. Friendship
14841 Many people are better at having good friends than being a good friend [Nietzsche]
14843 Women can be friends with men, but only some physical antipathy will maintain it [Nietzsche]
18295 If you want friends, you must be a fighter [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 1. Deontology
2915 Each person should devise his own virtues and categorical imperative [Nietzsche]
7185 Replace the categorical imperative by the natural imperative [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 2. Duty
20267 Seeing duty as a burden makes it a bit cruel, and it can thus never become a habit [Nietzsche]
4415 Guilt and obligation originated in the relationship of buying and selling, credit and debt [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 4. Categorical Imperative
2934 To see one's own judgement as a universal law is selfish [Nietzsche]
2859 The idea of the categorical imperative is just that we should all be very obedient [Nietzsche]
4507 The categorical imperative needs either God behind it, or a metaphysic of the unity of reason [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 1. Utilitarianism
14811 In Homer it is the contemptible person, not the harmful person, who is bad [Nietzsche]
24106 Talk of 'utility' presupposes that what is useful to people has been defined [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 3. Motivation for Altruism
4501 Utilitarianism criticises the origins of morality, but still believes in it as much as Christians [Nietzsche]
2884 The morality of slaves is the morality of utility [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 1. Existentialism
2880 The greatest possibilities in man are still unexhausted [Nietzsche]
20111 We could live more naturally, relishing the spectacle, and not thinking we are special [Nietzsche]
24080 We should give style to our character - by applying an artistic plan to its strengths and weaknesses [Nietzsche]
20104 Nietzsche tried to lead a thought-provoking life [Safranski on Nietzsche]
7164 Not feeling harnessed to a system of 'ends' is a wonderful feeling of freedom [Nietzsche]
23718 If we say birds of prey could become lambs, that makes them responsible for being birds of prey [Nietzsche]
4489 If faith is lost, people seek other authorities, in order to avoid the risk of willing personal goals [Nietzsche]
24086 The goal is to settle human beings, like other animals, but humans are still changeable [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 2. Nihilism
20125 The ethical teacher exists to give purpose to what happens necessarily and without purpose [Nietzsche]
24123 My eternal recurrence is opposed to feeling fragmented and imperfect [Nietzsche]
18286 The greatest experience possible is contempt for your own happiness, reason and virtue [Nietzsche]
7847 Initially nihilism was cosmic, but later Nietzsche saw it as a cultural matter [Nietzsche, by Ansell Pearson]
23717 Modern nihilism is now feeling tired of mankind [Nietzsche]
9782 Nietzsche urges that nihilism be active, and will nothing itself [Nietzsche, by Zizek]
23214 For the strongest people, nihilism gives you wings! [Nietzsche]
7198 Nihilism results from measuring the world by our categories which are purely invented [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 3. Angst
2876 The thought of suicide is a great reassurance on bad nights [Nietzsche]
7078 The freedom of the subject means the collapse of moral certainty [Nietzsche, by Critchley]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 4. Boredom
9306 To ward off boredom at any cost is vulgar [Nietzsche]
14844 People do not experience boredom if they have never learned to work properly [Nietzsche]
20102 Flight from boredom leads to art [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 5. Existence-Essence
20130 It is absurd to think you can change your own essence, like a garment [Nietzsche]
14808 Over huge periods of time human character would change endlessly [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 6. Authentic Self
20132 To become what you are you must have no self-awareness [Nietzsche]
20275 Most people think they are already complete, but we can cultivate ourselves [Nietzsche]
6869 Nietzsche thinks the human condition is to overcome and remake itself [Nietzsche, by Ansell Pearson]
7150 By developing herd virtues man fixes what has up to now been the 'unfixed animal' [Nietzsche]
7177 Virtues from outside are dangerous, and they should come from within [Nietzsche]
4513 Virtuous people are inferior because they are not 'persons', but conform to a fixed pattern [Nietzsche]
2874 Man is the animal whose nature has not yet been fixed [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 7. Existential Action
20106 Nietzsche was fascinated by a will that can turn against itself [Nietzsche, by Safranski]
4504 Morality used to be for preservation, but now we can only experiment, giving ourselves moral goals [Nietzsche]
24079 The best life is the dangerous life [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 8. Eternal Recurrence
2936 Imagine if before each of your actions you had to accept repeating the action over and over again [Nietzsche]
6842 Nietzsche says facing up to the eternal return of meaninglessness is the response to nihilism [Nietzsche, by Critchley]
24088 See our present lives as eternal! Religions see it as fleeting, and aim at some different life [Nietzsche]
24119 The eternal return of wastefulness is a terrible thought [Nietzsche]
24136 Who can endure the thought of eternal recurrence? [Nietzsche]
24154 If you want one experience repeated, you must want all of them [Nietzsche]
20124 Reliving life countless times - this gives the value back to life which religion took away [Nietzsche]
20137 The great person engages wholly with life, and is happy to endlessly relive the life they created [Nietzsche]
7172 Existence without meaning or goal or end, eternally recurring, is a terrible thought [Nietzsche]
20144 Eternal recurrence is the highest attainable affirmation [Nietzsche]