Nietzsche was an inveterate snob. His entire worldview is based on the idea that most people are weak and dumb, and a very small number are incredible and brilliant, and those people should be allowed to do whatever they want. This is another case—like the Greeks celebrating “wise men” while they cleared their throats and pointed to themselves—of a philosopher essentially arguing that we ought to revere people who are suspiciously like the philosopher himself. Also, if you’re scoring the philosophy fight between Kant and Nietzsche, at least Kant’s snobbery didn’t accidentally help create the
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