I think Nietzsche would agree that “slave morality” originated with Jesus. The main new idea that Jesus brought as a moral philosopher was compassion, feeling for the other person. It’s pretty find to hard in earlier sources, for example the heroes of the Iliad hurt weaker people without a second thought.
To me it feels obvious that the idea of compassion needs to exist, and needs to have force. Because otherwise we’d have a human society operating by the laws of the natural world, and if you look at what animals do to each other, there’s no limit to how bad things can get.
Can compassion also become a tool of power and abuse? Sure. But let’s not go back to a world without compassion, please.
I think Nietzsche would agree that “slave morality” originated with Jesus. The main new idea that Jesus brought as a moral philosopher was compassion, feeling for the other person. It’s pretty find to hard in earlier sources, for example the heroes of the Iliad hurt weaker people without a second thought.
To me it feels obvious that the idea of compassion needs to exist, and needs to have force. Because otherwise we’d have a human society operating by the laws of the natural world, and if you look at what animals do to each other, there’s no limit to how bad things can get.
Can compassion also become a tool of power and abuse? Sure. But let’s not go back to a world without compassion, please.