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Tag: <span>Friedrich Nietzsche</span>

The Natural Ordering Of Humanity Into A Conservative Material Class And A Transgressing Destructive Class

“The whole point is that in his article all people are somehow divided into the ‘ordinary’ and the ‘extraordinary.’ The ordinary must live in obedience and have no right to transgress the law, because they are, after all, ordinary. While the extraordinary have the right to commit all sorts of crimes and in various ways to transgress the law, because in point of fact they are extraordinary. That is how you had it, unless I’m mistaken?” “But what is this? It can’t possibly be so!” Razumikhin muttered in perplexity. Raskolnikov smiled again. He realized all at once what the point …