Nietzsche wrote that all great men are
criminals in the grand style, but they were not petty or pitiful; they
felt adrift from all ancestry, conscience, and duty in trying to find
the means to their great goals.
But that describes
the radically powerful man. Truly great men felt adrift from past
tragic errors of ancestry, conscience, and duty, they wanted to
boldly fix them, or deeply transform them, not desert or destroy
them.
Would Nietzsche
have become more conservative had he lived longer? It is difficult to
believe that one of the most courageous thinkers in human history
could be intellectually biased with resentment against traditional
power and authority, or consumed with jealously against a successful
artist like Wagner.
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