@anthonycbash

1 year ago

No, no, no! This was no disaster nor waste of your or my time, Dear Mr. Kaplan. I was totally immersed in every thought and exploration you led us on in discovering what Nietzsche had to say about morality. And btw, yes, the great birds of prey like the golden eagles found in the sub-Saharan African mountains are definitely big enough to carry off a young lamb with their 8.5 foot wingspan. About the future of morality, I cannot believe we will do better to revert to an old moral code, either the aristocratic one or the priestly one, but must forge a completely new one based on our new and improved understanding of evolution, physics, and human/animal biology. Any moral code that does not place these things at its foundation will never serve us well or long and that is what moral codes should fundamentally do; ie, they should serve to guide a society along a path leads to long term stability and flourishing. The old aristocratic mode of thinking and acting may have served well for many millennia when tribes were the dominant groupings of humanity but as societies grew and populations increased, the plebeians soon greatly outnumbered the nobility and no longer needed nor wanted their protection, thus the “slave revolution” and the replacement of moral codes. But humanity has once again outgrown its protective cocoon of the current morality and needs something new, something more in line with its own understanding of itself. Nietzsche will certainly be remembered for helping humanity break from the old, outdated “priestly” moral code, from “slave mentality” and usher in a better, more fitting morality which is yet to be defined and understood.

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