What's valuable in the Homeric world?
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What's valuable in the Homeric world? Honor, glory, power, the ability to get revenge, sexual gratification. That doesn't read like a litany of Christian values. Something happened in the West. Something happened. Judeo-Christian morality is not required by the nature of universe. It's not required by God who doesn't exist. It's not objectively true.
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There is only one source of value, and it's you, right? It's you. There is no real moral fact, right? There is just an emotional, affective response.
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In such a framework, how does moral improvement work?

Nietzsche: There is No Objective Right or Wrong | Brian Leiter

Interview with Brian Leiter on Nietzsche's Moral Antirealism

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In such a framework, how does moral improvement work?