In one speech, entitled "On the Way of the Creator," Nietzsche's Zarathustra describes the phases of t

he journey for self-knowledge. Occasionally Zarathustra punctuates a phase with a structurally simple yet seemingly contradictory argument; for example, his admonition to the "lonely one" to "beware the good and the just ... [who] like to crucify those who invent their own virtue for themselves." One would expect that a good person would remain so regardless of external circumstances, but Zarathustra's warning indicates otherwise. Why would such a person, who society normally considers an upstanding citizen, suddenly become so violent? The lonely man, as he begins to form his own definition of what is "good," becomes a threat to those who the masses consider "good." In the introduction to his book Leviathan, seventeenth-century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes describes a state of nature in which man's every action serves himself alone, and relates this theory to everyday life. For example, Hobbes would say that the "good" give to charity not because the

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