into good and bad strictly controlled by selected few who are able to create this truth. These few dictate and are prime examples of complete men/beasts who follow an individual self centered order void of god, or master (to thus become a master). To follow this will, this liberating desire to live in the pursuit of power is the essence of living. The will claims Nietzche is life, and those who succeed in its pursuit, live to make the distinctions between good and evil. Therefore good and evil does not exist (unless by religion) but rather the outcome (to succeed or not to succeed). Whereas with the Lao Tzu, the identical belief system that things are neither good or bad, large or small, but compliments, and overlapments of one another until nothing can be distinguished, or determined, believes that it is not the separation of master and slave morality that defines us, but the combination and void of both that creates the ideal man, a man of what Nietzche would believe as weak, and drawn to slave tendencies. To Lao Tzu, there is no master without slave. Indeed, the Tao Te Ching’s man lives through virtue, silence and, passivity. He draws his strength through acceptance (e.g. to bend is to be straight). Therefore, to Nietzche one who lives, and accepts the will to power is not branded the coward, but the better man devoted to his self-preservation. And to Lao Tzu, to truly understand the oneness, and nothingness of nature is to be closer to it, farther away from power, (eg similar to water, to order, to the nature of things which he believes as faithfulness and love of humanity). Two very different philosophies based upon the linked concepts of metaphysics, the ideas of what is real, if good is really definite or can be gauged. Hence the real question and distinction lies with the idea of (human) nature; whether he must act like his nature, or if his nature is reliant upon the physical nature that has preexisted. To d...
