5/30/2023 0 Comments Darwin master slave moralityAnd Nietzsche the philologist saw it in language as well. The lion sinks his teeth into the soft flesh of the lamb, the eagle sweeps down upon the sparrow. This is the natural health of the creature. He was unquestionably influenced by Darwin, who wrote his Origin of the Species in 1859 and The Descent of Man in 1871, and who looked as nature "red in fang and claw," and survival of the fittest. Nietzsche in the tradition of Callicles, Thrasymachus, Machievelli and Hobbes believed that the human being naturally seeks power: the will to dominate, the will to survive, the desire to be strong and to rule. Who is this pharaoh in our lives? Who are these slaves with whom we identify on this festival? One man in the nineteenth century who died in 1900 understood the subversive character of Judaism, understood what lies beneath the Passover revolution Friedrich Nietzsche and his writings in The Genealogy of Morals and Beyond Good and Evil. It is a Jewish festival of the birth of a people, but equally it is the birth of a spiritual sensibility that lies at the heart of western civilization. What lies behind the search for chamatz and the search for the afikoman? Passover is a revolution of ideas and ideals. ![]() ![]() You can sometimes limit yourself only to questions about how, when, where, how much, and miss the important question "what for?" ![]() You can sometimes be so immersed into detail that you do not understand the purpose. Sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees.
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