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Michael's avatar

That passage from BGE is also one of my favorite in all of Nietzsche. I recall that he has kinder words for stoicism in TGS, but only that it might be useful in an age of turbulence, when one is at the mercy of greater forces—a kind of slave morality really, nothing to aspire to.

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Ted Metrakas's avatar

Yes good point, and that’s why it’s so popular now—because we live in such turbulent times

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