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Basing our approach on the traditional philosophical and religious definitions of morality Friedrich Nietzsche considers an impediment to improving the human condition. Progress can be achieved only by thinking “beyond” traditional approaches. Good and evil are, in fact, fluid concepts. Nietzsche draws heavily on his theory of “Will to Power”—the driving force behind man’s desire to “become”—to “create.”:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Nietzsche called himself an immoralist. He believed that all progress depended upon the truth and that the truth could not prevail while men yet enmeshed themselves in a web of gratuitous and senseless laws fashioned by their own hands. He was fond of picturing the ideal immoralist as "a magnificent blond beast"—innocent of "virtue" and "sin" and knowing only "good" and "bad." Instead of a god to guide him, with commandments and the fear of hell, this immoralist would have his own instincts and intelligence. Instead of doing a given thing because the church called it a virtue or the current moral code required it, he would do it because he knew that it would benefit him or his descendants after him. Instead of refraining from a given action because the church denounced it as a sin and the law as a crime, he would avoid it only if he were convinced that the action itself, or its consequences, might work him or his an injury. — THE PHILOSOPHY OF FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, by H. L. Mencken
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy, and became the youngest-ever occupant of the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869, at age 24. He resigned in 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life, and he completed much of his core writing in the following decade. In 1889, at age 44, he suffered a collapse and a complete loss of his mental faculties. He lived his remaining years in the care of his mother and then with his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, and died in 1900.
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