I was googling for provenance of ‘strong should rule the weak’ argument. Wikipedia had a bad summary of a lousy version of the argument from The Republic. TV tropes had a vastly more useful and entertaining listicle of social Darwinist cartoon villainshttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSocialDarwinist …
On the contrary I find the Greek arguments pretty shallow and obvious. Post Darwinian ones are far richer.
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Nietzsche’s not post-Darwin, but more interesting than biologism for me. The “Genealogy of Morals” is about how the strong “amorality of oligarchs” succumbed to the weak’s nihilism (xtians). It is masked as polemic, but it’s more ambivalent (Hegelian even) than it seems.
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