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| "To speak of right and wrong per se makes no sense at all. No act of violence, rape, exploitation, destruction, is intrinsically unjust, since life itself is violent, rapacious, exploitative, and destructive and cannot be conceived otherwise." |
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| "Not owing to any morality or immorality, but because it lives, and life is precisely Will to Power." |
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| "There is master-morality and slave-morality... The distinctions of moral values have either originated in a ruling caste, pleasantly conscious of being differing from the rules - or among the ruled class, the slaves and dependents of all sorts." |
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| "What is good? --All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and the power itself in man. What is bad?--All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness?--The feeling that power is increasing--that resistance has been overcome." |
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| "Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly doubtful nature of the whole edifice that I had subsequently based on them. I realized that it was necessary, once in the course of my life, to demolish everything completely and start again right from the foundations..." |
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| "Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true I have acquired either from the senses or through the senses. But from time to time I have found that the senses deceive, and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us even once." |
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| "If he is deceiving me: and let him deceive me as much as he can, he will never bring it about that I am nothing so long as I think that I am something." |
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| "Here therefore we divide all the perceptions of the mind into two classes or species, which are distinguished by their different degrees of force and vivacity. The less forcible and lively are commonly denominated Thoughts or Ideas. The other species want a name in our language (Impressions)." |
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Moral excellence, goodness, righteousness
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| knowledge or justification is independent of experience |
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meta- pertaining to a level above and beyond
physics- the physical aspects of phenomena in a system |
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| "All the objects of human reason or inquiry may naturally be divided into two kinds, to wit, Relations of Ideas, and Matters of Fact." |
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| "All reasoning concerning matter of fact to be founded on the relation of Cause and Effect. By means of that relation alone we can go beyond the evidence of our memory and senses." |
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| "A good will is not good because of what it effects or accomplishes--because of its fitness for attaining some proposed end: it is good through its willing along--that is, good in itself." |
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| "For there it is easy to decide whether the action which accords with duty has been done from duty or from some purpose of self-interest." |
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| "The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." |
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| Substances is thought to belong most obviously to bodies; and so we say that not only animals and plants and their parts are substances, but also natural bodies such as fire and water and earth and everything of the sort, and all things that are either parts of these or composed of these (either parts or of the whole bodies) e.g. the physical universe and its parts, stars, and moon and sun. |
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| "The word 'substance' is applied, if not in more senses, still at least to four main objects; for both the essence and the universal and the genus, are thought to be the substance of each thing, and fourthly the substratum. Now the substratum is that of which everything else is predicated, while it is itself not predicated of anything else." |
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| "But distinction of actuality and potentiality applies in another way to cases where the matter of cause and of effect is not the same, in some of which cases the form is not the same but different; e.g. the cause of man is (1) the elements in man and further (2) something else outside, i.e. the father, and (3) besides these the sun and its oblique course, which are neither matter nor form nor privation of man nor the same species with him, but moving causes." |
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Material Cause
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| The cause or element out of which an object is created |
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| The means by which an object is created |
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| The expression of what it is to be created |
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| The end for which an object had been made. |
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| "Whoever asks for the cause of our learning anything simply asks for the cause of our doing well. So do not look for any teacher of evil. If he is evil he is not a teacher. If he is a teacher he is not evil." |
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Morality is determined by justice because we can see the difference between someone performing a duty and performing in self-interest.
Justice is determined by what is good and bad.
Good and bad are already determined because a good is already good in itself. Therefore evil already knows it is evil. Justice just states it. |
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For something to be created, we cannot have nothing because four causes are needed or an object to be created.
We know that there are substances that make reality. |
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Creating right and wrong makes no sense because the world is "wrong". To be right is to overcome power. To be wrong is to be weak.
Therefore, owing anyone is like becoming a slave to our morality. It may be a "good" thing to do, but it is weak to yourself. Find a way not to owe people.
A masters of one's morality is evil because he has owns slave's morality. However, to Nietzche, he is good because he is powerful. "Will to Power"
The Ubermenchan is one that can master his own morality by being powerful over himself which causes himself to be powerful over others without causing others to suffer. |
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Nothing is true except that I know that I exist because if I erase all knowledge I can only know that I am here.
If god was to deceive my senses, I would still know that I exist. |
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| Everything we know and we see are experiences because it is all based on cause and effect. Therefore, we can look outside our reality. |
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| reason is independent from experience |
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| a posteriori (Empiricism) |
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| knowledge is obtained from experience |
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