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Post Enlightenment Political Thought

...... In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche sought not what was good or evil, but rather the psychosocial sources of the judgment of these mores. According to Nietzsches reckoning, there was in actuality no moral phenomenon but only the moral interpretation of them. In The Genealogy of Morals, he went further to question whether or not morality was valuable in and of itself since it was a made up convention that had no independent existence in and of itself in the world of reality (Kaufman, 456)
For Nietzsche, this discovery was liberating and led humans to create their own life affirming values instead. Christianity and its attendant bourgeois morality could be discarded as humans created their own moral order new and fresh that would affirm their strength, self-pride and assertive natures rather than the Christian mores of humility and meekness with its historically determined inevitable weakness. This new human judgment was based more on feeling and emotions and lead to a questioning of rationality. Will and determination forged the emotions of this new world. Nietzsches views are definitely romantic and post-enlightenment. Indeed, Goethe would probably be considered a philosophical lightweight in comparison. Nietzsche indeed is a product of the Biedermeier