"He, however, has discovered himself who says, "This is my good and evil"; with that he has reduced to silence the mole and dwarf who say, "Good for all, evil for all." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche from Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Beyond Good and Evil." It's the title of another great book by Nietzsche. The theme? We do not need a priest or others to tell us what is good and evil. WE need to discover it for OURSELVES. When we touch the eternal and internal truths of our own deep knowing, we don't need a "mole or a dwarf" or a priest to tell us what is good and what is evil. We say with force, "This is my good and evil."
Maslow, in his brilliant description of the self-actualizing individual (see Notes), described the ethics of a self-actualizing individual this way: "They do right and do not do wrong. Needless to say, their notions of right and wrong and of good and evil are often not the conventional ones."
What is your good? What is your evil? Are you sure they're yours or did you kinda get ‘em like hand me downs that don't really fit that well anymore? (And never did?)
"Break, break, you lovers of knowledge, the old tablets!" ~ Friedrich Nietzsche from Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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