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Question:Traditional morality is subject to the laws of a certain culture. Nietzsche looked at it from outside. I mean, as someone in the assembly, watching a drama in the theatre.
Philosophers are not subject to traditional morality. They are subject to a not-of-this-world morality where laws are non-existent.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Traditional morality is subject to the laws of a certain culture. Nietzsche looked at it from outside. I mean, as someone in the assembly, watching a drama in the theatre.
Philosophers are not subject to traditional morality. They are subject to a not-of-this-world morality where laws are non-existent.

"morality is herd instinct in the individual"

You'd have to ask him, but the weaker ones find strength in numbers they're more subject to morality.