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Rammy Kuttaineh's avatar

Preserving the commons, as a common good, is actually worth more than people imagine.

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Leon Earl's avatar

Perhaps, but I think part of Nietzsche's critique is that there has always been a common "good" in every culture (including those who we would now see as immoral, like vikings). It is often the people who break away from the standard mode of thought who push society forwards and experience new things. Nietzsche's philosophy denies that stagnation is a healthy state for humans, and so advancement is generally more favourable than a status quo.

Hopefully that clarifies some of what was absent from the essay.

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