Vitalism
Current that takes life itself, Bergson's élan vital and Nietzsche's will to power, as the supreme value, exalting instinct, physical vigor, creation and heroism against decadence, sickness and egalitarianism.
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Current that takes life itself, Bergson's élan vital and Nietzsche's will to power, as the supreme value, exalting instinct, physical vigor, creation and heroism against decadence, sickness and egalitarianism.
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I want life affirmed as the supreme value, with vigor, courage and creation by an exceptional elite, against resentment, renunciation and leveling.
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Leans further toward free market than 86% of the 266 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Control is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.

A German philosopher, Nietzsche attacked egalitarian morality, Christianity, and modern resentment, defending the aristocratic creation of values, the affirmation of life, and the overcoming of inherited moral conventions.
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