Cruelty as Willing Decay: Nietzsche’s Conception of Cruelty and the Path to Self-Overcoming

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Brief Overview

In this paper I will: establish Nietzsche’s definition of cruelty, illustrate how cruelty is a disinterested malice by highlighting passages from Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and clarify how cruelty is linked to self-overcoming in Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

Author

• Miranda J Keller, University of California-Davis