Nietzsche’s morality of the strong reduces justice to survival and power

Evidence

When the objective systematization of nature has been disposed of as prejudice and myth, nature remains only as a material mass. Nietzsche knows of no law “which we not only acknowledge, but acknowledge as above us.” In so far as the understanding, which owes its importance to the yardstick of survival, recognizes a law of existence, it is that of the stronger. Even though the formalism of reason does not allow it to offer a necessary pattern for mankind, it nevertheless enjoys the advantage of actuality as against the untruthful ideology. Nietzsche’s theory is that the weak are guilty, for they circumvent the natural law by means of cunning. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 85

Categorization

• XREF: Direct precursor tracing: Burns’s culture-industry critique and the broader domination-through-reason thesis of Dialectic of Enlightenment hinge on this Naturrecht-as-power inversion. — connects to: Nietzsche reduced all ideology to a power struggle between illusions; Moral systems are judged by survival value, not by preference — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1014; Moral authorities justify effective violence despite logical contradictions

Broader Connections

• Nietzsche reduced all ideology to a power struggle between illusions #expands (0.80)
• Moral systems are judged by survival value, not by preference #corroborates (0.78) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1014
• Moral authorities justify effective violence despite logical contradictions #complicates (0.72)