“I call an animal, a species, an individual corrupt, when it loses its instincts, when it chooses when it prefers, what is harmful to it.” Throughout much of history, humans have perceived themselves as superior to all other creatures. Myths of our divine origin and our place at the crown of creation are found in…

“What if a regressive trait lurked in “the good man,” likewise a danger, an enticement, a poison, a narcotic, so that the present lived at the expense of the future? Perhaps in more comfort and less danger, but also in a smaller-minded, meaner manner? … So that morality itself were to blame if man never…

Nietzsche viewed himself as the first psychologist amongst the great philosophers. Given that Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Alfred Adler, three giants of 20th-century psychology, were all heavily influenced by Nietzsche’s psychological insights, his grandiose self-assessment seems to have contained at least a kernel of truth.  Nietzsche’s psychological investigations were not conducted for the sake…