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by identity-haver 2638 days ago
I'm not really sure where to start here. There was more "excellence" in the Roman Republic and prior times than the following 2000 years of European history?

This is a familiar critique that seems to conflate the modern self-esteem craze, communism, and the utopian "equality of outcome" with the traditional religiously based idea of equality, which is that every soul is made in the image of and has equal responsibility before God and that's it. The Lockean idea of human rights is cladistically derived from this.
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keiferski 2638 days ago
Nietzschean philosophy is a bit too complex for me to explain in a HN comment, but I was referring more to the Master-Slave Morality concept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master–slave_morality

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identity-haver 2637 days ago
Oh I know what it is, I just think it’s completely wrong to apply to Europe pre WWI. How a culture that explored and conquered almost the entire world had a “slave morality” because of the beatitudes or something was always baffling. What would be interesting is applying it to today’s secular Europe.
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