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Nietzsche's Guide to Greatness

An introductory lecture summarizing the key ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche’s On The Genealogy of Morality. Companion Lectures & Interviews Girard’s Defense of Christianity: Nietzsche’s Attack on Free Will (6/9/24 launch) Reference Texts (Affiliate) Recommended Translation of the Genealogy

[Masters] step back into the innocence of the beast-of-prey conscience, as jubilant monsters, who perhaps walk away from a hideous succession of murder, arson, rape, torture with such high spirits and equanimity that it seems as if they have only played a student prank, convinced that for years to come the poets will again have something to sing and to praise. whose reception into the heavens was publicly announced, groaning now in the lowest darkness with great Jove himself, and those … governors of provinces, too, who persecuted the Christian name in fires more fierce than those with which in the days of their pride they raged against the followers of Christ. [In Nietzsche's mind, the] tentative contacts [his friend] had made on his behalf with … quite average people—people, moreover, who were generally interested in, but hardly converts to, his philosophy—were transformed into "a discipleship" composed solely of "the most elevated natures: of exclusively high-placed and influential people in St. Petersburg, in Paris, in Stockholm, in Vienna, in New York."

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