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Originally Posted by Rotten
You seem to misunderstand me. Man created Evil indeed, but he did so out of resentment to the Übermensch. And religion (and the whole idea of God) is a way to fight the Übermensch. He decided that the Übermensch was the "Evil", and thus, everything opposite of the Übermensch was "Good".
It's a master-slave morality really. The slave creates evil as a way to fight the master, and do this by standing together, and all agree that the master is Evil. Thus it is a reactionary morality, that was invented just to despise the Übermensch. Their concept of "Good" is just the opposite, or whatever is best for the "slaves".
Think about the Roman and Judean type, as Nietzsche said it. The Romans honoured the "Übermensch", and most of them were almost Übermensch themselves. The Judean type is the one you now bow to when you're in Rome; namely, the weak. You bow to Jesus Christ the Carpenter, Paul the carpet-maker and Peter the fisherman. What happened to the strong? Augustus, Cæsar, the great poets, the great sculpturers, the great musicians, the great writers, not to mention the great philosophers?
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I don't see why evil should only be rooted in a feeling of inferiority or exploitation. Or even in a more or less real position of same. IMHO, evil would simply be a matter of perceiving anything deliberately harmful, including but not limited to anything involuntarily suppressive. The latter is most certainly a source of the perception of evil and, in that regard, Nietzsche was right.
*edited: the word "involuntarily" referring to the suppressed, of course - not the suppressor
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Originally Posted by Rotten
In my interpretation of the word, "Evil" must be justified by something higher. I don't really see how one could do that prior to the idea of God.
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Something higher than what? If you mean higher than the individual perceiving an act or intention of evil then I'd say you're sort of right. Evil is always justified in something higher but it needn't be of a religious nature. Something higher to the individual is family (and other close social ties), morals, society and ideology. All higher ideals being the source of altruism and therefore higher than any value the individual puts on his own life (including the case where his own life is part of a higher ideal). "Sort of right" because all higher ideals can't really be separated from the individual (no individual, no ideals) but that's an almost irrelevant issue.