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He thought that the needs of the rich mattered more than that of the poor - because he was all about greatness.
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He viewed most of humanity as industrial waste in the process of creating superhumans.
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His idealized superhumans won’t be caring about happiness, but would be hard ascetics.
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They would care about efficiency.
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In Thus Spoke Zarathusthra, he wrote: “Do I strive after happiness? No, I strive after my works!”
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He criticized the dominant form of materialism in his time - atomism.
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He hated metaphysics, since he thought philosophers couldn’t decide whether the transcendental reality or the world of appearances is more real.
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He thought that morality and metaphysics were connected.
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He wrote Thus Spoke Zarathusthra because he thought Zarathusthra was the first person to bring up morality - the divide between good and evil.
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He wrote in Ecce Homo: “Zarathustra was the first to see in the struggle of good and evil the true wheel in the working of things — the translation of morality into the metaphysical, as force, first cause, end-in-itself, is his work.”
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He uses Zarathusthra to go beyond morality and metaphysics.
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He mocked Kant’s noumena
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He filtered his idea of “eternal recurrence” through Hegel and Kant
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He was too impressed by Hume to take “things in themselves” seriously
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He believed in “will to power” or a desire to achieve self-perfection over Schopenhauer’s blind “will to live”