Good and evil, and rich and poor, and high and low, and all names of values: weapons shall they be, and sounding signs, that life must again and again surpass itself!
Zarathustra wants men to throng to the future with ever more war and inequality among them. Their values are to be weapons in the supreme fight, for life builds itself aloft with columns and stairs and strives to rise.
- Self-overcomingLife must again and again surpass itself and so needs steps, climbers and variance of steps.
- Will to powerLife strives upward through inequality and hostility.
- Revaluation of values (old and new tables)All value-names are weapons and signs made by men in their struggles.
What the critics said
Ludovici says that as a sociologist Nietzsche aimed at an aristocratic order of society and the rearing of an ideal race, holding that men are not equal and that every elevation of the type man has been the work of an aristocratic society with a long scale of ranks.
Ludovici identifies the tarantulas with Socialists and Democrats whose criticism of society from below is suppressed envy, and says Nietzsche refuses to be confused with them, including the 'Nietzschean Socialists' who preach his doctrine together with equality.