Pride, nobility, and egoism?

Question:Why did Nietzsche eulogize these things in "Beyond Good and Evil"? Why are these ideals so important?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Why did Nietzsche eulogize these things in "Beyond Good and Evil"? Why are these ideals so important?

"world is the will to power -- and nothing besides!"
Beyond Good and Evil, Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (1886) most closely resembles the aphoristic style of his middle period. In it he exposes the deficiencies of those usually called "philosophers" and identifies the qualities of the "new philosophers": imagination, self-assertion, danger, originality, and the "creation of values". He then contests some of the key presuppositions of the old philosophic tradition like "self-consciousness," "knowledge," "truth," and "free will", explaining them as inventions of the moral consciousness. In their place, he offers the will to power as an explanation of all behavior; this ties into his "perspective of life", which he regards as "beyond good and evil", denying a universal morality for all human beings. Religion and the master and slave moralities feature prominently as Nietzsche re-evaluates deeply-held humanistic beliefs, portraying even domination, appropriation and injury to the weak as not universally objectionable.

Nietzche and his new followers are more rhetoricians than philosophers. they toss and play foot ball with words, and cat and mice with their readers. Try to find out what they mean , and you will only get words, more words, torrents of them.

u may attribute what meanings you please to these and other words of this sort. it is not necessary that you should keep consistency in interrupting the meanings. obviously, u have already interpreted them as "ideals" - i presume you would like to be proud, noble and egoistic. this is the heroic pose. there is nothing intrinsically good or bad about these qualities. depending on the society you live in, you may be respected, or hated, for exhibiting them.

Nietzche ranted on about "beyond human" and so on, and finally became mad. his philosophy was used to justify the worst aberration of morals that humanity ever witnessed - the Nazi culture.

i urge MODERATION. be judgemental about yourself, moderately proud of what you believe is the good you have done, noble in the sense that you do no harm to others in order to benefit yourself, and egoistic in thinking of the good that you have done to others.

Here is help with "egoism." I can't do much with Nietzsche.