The altruism instinct

Nietzsche did not think that morality could attain “the certainty of an instinct,” but altruism is an instinct when it is understood as the constellation of genetic traits that make up group-selection.

Nietzsche should have stopped at the problem altruism has when it hypertrophies itself into universal altruism, because altruism is tied to kin and local group, and only somewhat beyond the local, and not to worldwide universal altruism.

Religion did this mainly, but so did philosophy beginning with the universal virtues of Socrates, although the Hindus in the East were probably doing this before the Greeks. The main source of this universalism was the universal abstraction that derives from centering on the so-called non-material God or Father Within.

The non-attachment to all material desires required in seeing the God Within brings about the dissolution of the instincts, with moral judgments “denaturalized.” But this can be reformed in the Twofold Path, when the God Within is understood as only a symbolic experience of the Godhood which can be reached in material/supermaterial evolution.

The altruism and values of group-selection in the Outward Path can help all groups, and not just one group, evolve upward in evolution toward real Godhood, as an instinctive action, a Will-Spirit like a Super-Id. This of course does not rule out individual contributions to society, including the Nietzschean genius, but it puts them in their proper survivalist and evolutionary place.