The Masks of the Master: Reading Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil

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We're on part 13 chapter 39 which means actually maybe we are making a little progress slowly but surely slowly but surely. [clears throat] Now again, this uh we're going to do three three sections tonight, I think. And um this is one where I actually do fault nature for being a little opaque. Generally, he's very clear.

He's just clearly says things that are hard to understand. In this case, I think we run into some passages where no, he's just being really confusing. So, if you got really confused in these couple of chapters, then don't feel bad because yeah, it's confusing. I just think it is confusing.

Anyway, maybe it's just me. You're probably way ahead of me on this one. So 39. Uh great.

This is a great observation. I love this one. Nobody will readily regard a doctrine as true merely because it makes people happy or virtuous. Right?

So there you have it. Right? If something makes people happy doesn't mean it's true. Even if it makes people virtuous or behave well or do good things, that still doesn't mean it's true.

And so having a theory like oh uh you know if we're benthamites and we think that the greatest good for the greatest many that this is great and that theory makes people happy and they're like oh we're going to share everything out that doesn't mean it's true right this doesn't have any sort of metaphysical claim to absolute reality you know etc etc so na starts there which seems like oh yeah sure of course just because something makes you happy or for instance doesn't mean it's healthy for you right like this is one of these one of these little problems that the human struggles with is happy does not necessarily correlate with healthy unfortunately but sometimes it does but sometimes it doesn't. We may have experienced all of this right. Um he says of course there's a few idealists who might be enthusiastic about this concept but they just they're so goodnatured that ...