Ressentiment and the Moral Compass

Descending into Achilles passive mēnis in the Iliad leads to a better understanding of the birth of our democratic moral compass.

The three metamorphoses Zarathustra describes in his first speech after the prologue moves us beyond any knee-jerk philosophical and religious musings of ‘being and becoming’. The vision presented here is far more sophisticated.

The second installment of my series of Reading Zarathustra. This focuses on the problem of teaching, discipleship, truth telling, and companionship in ‘The Speeches of Zarathustra’ from Book I.

The first in a commentary series on Thus Spoke Zarathustra. This post covers Zarathustra’s Prologue.