Mediocrity versus meritocracy: Nietzsche's (mis)reading of Chamfort

• Autores: R. Abbey
• Localización: History of political thought, ISSN 0143-781X, Vol. 19, Nº 3, 1998, págs. 457-483
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article challenges the claim that Friedrich Nietzsche is a good reader of the French moralist, Chamfort, when it comes to Chamfort's politics. Chamfort is a meritocrat rather than the bitter egalitarian Nietzsche protrays him to be. Moreover, the moralist's meritocratic beliefs, his hopes for a new social order and the emergence of a new aristocracy resemble many of Nietzsche's own values. Had Nietzsche read Chamfort as a meritocrat, he could have found much to stimulate and clarify his own thoughts about the aristocracy of the future.