Q&A: Nietzsche's Doctrine
Nietzsche's Doctrine
Question
Hello, honorable Rabbi!
Why did Nietzsche oppose the human conscience, and why did Hitler want to destroy the Jews because they represented conscience?
I understood that this has to do with feelings of guilt, which a person experiences and needs to fight against. His claim was that the central thing should be the aspiration to power. I don't really understand the rationale behind this philosophy. Does the honorable Rabbi know this view and can he explain it to me?
Answer
I am not an expert on Nietzsche. As far as I understand, he saw feelings of guilt and morality as a human weakness. The strong do not need this, because they manage on their own. The weak assimilate these values into our culture because they themselves need them (without them they would not get by). He argued that one should be strong and that the weak should perish (ethical Darwinism).