Nietzsche says it is a mistake to regard it as a duty to aim at the victory of good and the annihilation of evil, calling this view English and typical of John Stuart Mill, for whom he has special virulent contempt because Mill advocates the principle that 'what is right for one man is right for another,' which Nietzsche calls an ignoble hypothesis.

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Bertrand Russell

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he says for instance that it is a mistake to regard it as a duty to aim at the victory of good and the annihilation of evil this view is English and typical of that Blockhead John Stewart Mill

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Friedrich Nietzsche by Bertrand RussellStoica Nicusor
Created: 8/11/2026, 1:18:36 AM

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