Sublime

“The Simple Egalitarian Principle: All sincere persons’ beliefs have equal claim to respect.” 23 This implies that something doesn’t need to be true to be respected. This is the kind of epistemological and moral relativism that underlies Social Justice scholarship and activism.

Wealth is thus bad ethically only insofar as it is a temptation to idleness and sinful enjoyment of life, and its acquisition is bad only when it is with the purpose of later living merrily and without care. But as a performance of duty in a calling it is not only morally permissible, but actually enjoined.

Just as Christianity looked for the honest man inside the thief, democracy looked for the wise man inside the fool. It encouraged the fool to be wise. We can call this thing sometimes optimism, sometimes equality; the nearest name for it is encouragement.

If we were somewhat larger-minded people, we should know that he might be as wise as Socrates and as splendid as Bayard and yet be unfitted, perhaps one should say therefore be unfitted, for the dismal and dirty gambling of modern commerce.

Second, there is plenty of room for our morality, including our political morality, to be strict and based in the notion of rules and rights. We should subject ourselves to the constraint of respecting human rights, noting that only semi-absolute human rights will be strong enough to place any constraint on pursuing the benefits of a higher rate of

Nietzsche claims, that a philosopher, to deserve our respect, must preach by example,

As the lawyers constitute the only enlightened class which the people does not mistrust, they are naturally called upon to occupy most of the public stations.