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In 1924, Clarence Darrow's eight-hour plea for Leopold and Loeb blamed the universities and scholars of Nietzsche (who died in 1900) for their influence on Leopold:

He became enamored of the philosophy of Nietzsche. Your honor, I have read almost everything that Nietzsche ever wrote. A man of wonderful intellect; the most original philosophy of the last century. A man who had made a deeper imprint on philosophy than any other man within a hundred years, whether right or wrong. More books have been written about him than probably all the rest of the philosophers in a hundred years. … Is there any blame attached because somebody took Nietzsche's philosophy seriously and fashioned his life on it?

Nietzsche is popularly associated with Nazism and even before this with “the superman … free from scruple” that Darrow describes, but he was also popular among the [...]

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First published:
December 4th, 2023

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Ypo9kNpp45EELgEdK/nietzsche-s-morality-in-plain-english

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https://arjunpanickssery.substack.com/p/nietzsches-morality-in-plain-english

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[Linkpost] “Nietzsche’s Morality in Plain English” by Arjun Panickssery

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