2016-10-04
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Alright, so whenever you're talking to somebody about Nietzsche's philosophy,
well I guess more specifically the six or seven books that make up the main body of his philosophy.
A common way that people like to sort of package it all together and break it down is to say
that what Nietzsche is trying to do all throughout his work is he's trying to get us to rethink all the fundamental assumptions that we're making about three major parts of our thinking.
Number one, our thoughts about God and religion.
Talked about that on Nietzsche part one,
we talked about these true world theories and how they are ultimately to Nietzsche,
clever human inventions to fill an intrinsic psychological void for meaning.
Number two, our thoughts about human nature.
That was Nietzsche part two when we talked about the will to power,
what it means to be a human being, and why we do what we do.
Well the third and final area that people commonly say Nietzsche's trying to get us to think about is a concept that we're actually all very familiar with.
It's the idea that everything in the universe can ultimately be classified
as being part of one of two extremely broad categories that we like to call good and evil.
Something is either good or it's evil.
Everything, every event, every example of human behavior that you can point to, if we look at it closely enough,