it. He maintained a certain admiration for Jesus as a molder of human minds and hearts, but he detested the Jewish-Christian "slave morality," the ethics of affirming the worth and dignity of every person, no matter how lowly. He despised the idea of the equality of all souls before God. Nietzsche reaffirmed pagan virtues, especially from ancient Greek culture, and he held that for the human race to evolve toward the "Overman" (beginning with him and his poetic creation, Zarathustra) people must be willing to sacrifice human lives that stand in the way of this. He did not mean offering them in
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