Do you believe that greatness requires a degree of psychopathy?

[Anonymous]

Yes

No

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"A part of greatness:
To be the cause great suffering without sympathy."

-Nietzsche, The Happy Science

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"Good (gut) and God (Gott) share the same root, because the Teutonic conception of goodness was godliness. The essence of a god is greatness."

-Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

[NamerOfStars]

There is no greatness when rectitude is thrust aside.

"Now if any one wishes to find a really effective and comprehensible and permanent case for aristocracy well and sincerely stated, let him read, not the modern philosophical conservatives, not even Nietzsche, let him read the Bow Bells Novelettes.

Nietzsche and the Bow Bells Novelettes have both obviously the same fundamental character; they both worship the tall man with curling moustaches and herculean bodily power, and they both worship him in a manner which is somewhat feminine and hysterical. Even here, however, the Novelette easily maintains its philosophical superiority, because it does attribute to the strong man those virtues which do commonly belong to him, such virtues as laziness and kindliness and a rather reckless benevolence, and a great dislike of hurting the weak.

Nietzsche, on the other hand, attributes to the strong man that scorn against weakness which only exists among invalids."

[Asker]

It's not about hurting the weak. Like nietzsche said, the bird of prey doesn't concern himself if his prey thinks he's evil. He needs to eat.

[RavVid]

Not sure it is pyschopathy but some pychological abnormality for sure

[goaded]

No. Great people do things that help people and minimise harm.

[laly520]

a psychopath cannot be great

[exitseven]

No but a lot if successful people are neurotic.

[OtterMan68]

Einstein? Eisenhower? Paul McCartney?

[argot]

Nope.