Virtue, Gift-Giving, and Critique of Morality

From Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Zarathustra critiques received virtues as life-denying and praises the 'gift-giving virtue' of overflowing creativity grounded in healthy selfishness.
Part I, 'On the Gift-Giving Virtue'

Highest virtue is gold-like, useless, and bestowing; concludes Part I.

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Part I, 'On the Thousand and One Goals'

Good and evil are humanly created; no eternal moral order.

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Part III, 'On the Three Evils'

Revaluation of sex, the lust to rule, and selfishness as goods.

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