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Thu 31 Jan, 2008 04:21 am
i had an interview ysterday at the university of essex, and the lecturer who interviewed me, Patrice Maniglier, mentioned Friedrich Nietzsche.
i had not previously heard anything from his works, but one thing caught my attention, Patrice said that Nietzsche attempted to reverse ethics. i am supposing that this means good things become bad and bad things become good, however wouldn't that world be too chaotic to exist? not impossible, but self-destructive.
maybe i have misunderstood what the reversal of ethics is. anybody know what Nietzsche meant?
Read Beyond good and evil, by Nietzsche.
Re: Nietzsche
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master-slave_morality
It's not a very good read (not even by Wikipedia's standards), but it's the basic idea.
I think the Wikipedia reading is good--as a summary statement for someone who has read Nietzsche. But it is not a useful introduction.
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