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  • Nietzsche on morals

    Nietzsche on Morality: Master and Slave Morality in the Genealogy of Morals

    By Markus Uehleke

    Watch a lion eat a deer in a lion documentary and you cheer; watch it in a deer documentary and you look away. Nietzsche built a whole theory of morality on that switch, with lambs, birds of prey, debts and priests. Was he really on the lion’s side, or is the story more complicated than the meme lets on?
  • Ethics meme: a hand pets a happy dog, captioned “whether or not you are a good boy depends on what system of ethics I choose to apply”

    On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense: Nietzsche, Perspectivism and the Ethics Meme

    By Markus Uehleke

    Is the dog a good boy? Depends on your ethical theory, says the meme. Nietzsche went further in 1873: truth itself is a mobile army of metaphors, and being truthful means lying by convention. He never published the essay, and his famous “no facts” line sits in a notebook. So did he hand us post-truth?