Beasts of Prey (Noble Races)

[MarkyMark]

“One cannot fail to see at the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory; this hidden core needs to erupt from time to time, the animal has to get out again and go back to the wilderness: the Roman, Arabian, Germanic, Japanese nobility, the Homeric heroes, the Scandinavian Vikings--they all shared this need."

---Friedrich Nietzsche

[rob211080]

He's my favourite philosopher along with voltaire.

[El_Abominacion]

Proud member of Zimbabwean nobility

[Mortimer]

Do I have beast or predator eyes? I was a few times told they are a little hooded and that hooded means, predator eye shape? What What...

[frankhammer]

Proud member of Zimbabwean nobility

Matabele ubermensch?

[sean]

Master morality is the morality of the strong-willed, for strong-willed men, the "good" is the noble, strong, and powerful, while the "bad" is the weak, cowardly, timid, and petty. The essence of master morality is nobility.

Let us acknowledge unprejudicedly how every higher civilization hitherto has ORIGINATED! Men with a still natural nature, barbarians in every terrible sense of the word, men of prey, still in possession of unbroken strength of will and desire for power, threw themselves upon weaker, more moral, more peaceful races (perhaps trading or cattle-rearing communities), or upon old mellow civilizations in which the final vital force was flickering out in brilliant fireworks of wit and depravity. At the commencement, the noble caste was always the barbarian caste: their superiority did not consist first of all in their physical, but in their psychical power--they were more COMPLETE men (which at every point also implies the same as "more complete beasts").

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Master morality values pride and power, while slave morality values things like kindness, empathy, and sympathy.

Master morality weighs actions on good or bad consequences, unlike slave morality, which weighs actions on a scale of good or evil intentions.

When a slave morality shapes a civilisation it demonizes not only its origins but its future.

The west's cultural frame promotes kindness and empathy, but our psychological frame is sort of left to our own devices, which leads to undeveloped minds, and end up getting abused by populations with less empathy.