Nietzsche and Radical View

Okay, let's look at an example: You've got two people standing in front of a tree looking at it. Each one sees a differing view of the tree, because they can't stand in the exact same place. If the people switch places, they are still different people with different attributes, and they have also moved in time. They can never have the same view of the tree.

If we apply this to everything, we have Nietzschean perspectivism. So each individual on the Earth has a radically different view of reality. Now, because our views are all different, they come into conflict with each other, and we attempt to make our own radical view the primary one whether through argument or war. Nietzsche called this the "Will to Power."

Now what Nietzsche further said is this: Up until Christ, there were two differing kinds of morals. There were morals for the elite and how the elite would be treated, master morality, and rules for the underclass and how the underclass would be treated, slave morality. This is in fact true of all belief systems except for the Christian one. I could give numerous examples, but let's just say that from the Greeks making sport of their slaves to the Japanese samurai practicing sword technique on poor farmers, there has always been two sets of rules.

Now what Nietzsche envisioned was that people who are actually elite, in strength and brains, would have their own set of rules, and the people that didn't have the strength and brains would be treated differently. That is the idea of ubermensch, and it sure caused a lot of trouble. It's essentially a vision of an anarchist meritocracy.

Nietzsche argued that Christianity's idea of treating everyone as an equal was a bursting forth of slave morality into a place where it didn't belong. I disagree with this view, but Nietzsche had his own problems, and that is that.

It is interesting to note that when Nietzsche finally went mad he recanted his anti-Jewish views and became a hell of a lot nicer person. He was unable to do any work, and died in obscurity, only to become the main influence of thousands of movements all over the world about 20 years later.