Key Arguments

• He issues a paradoxical imperative to become 'better and more evil', indicating that moral elevation requires intensifying the very drives labeled evil.
• He asserts a teleological justification: 'What is most evil is necessary for the Overhuman’s best,' tying intensified 'evil' to the goal of the Overhuman.
• This reframes 'evil' as a necessary ingredient of creation, rank, and overcoming rather than a defect to be expunged.

Source Quotes

For evil is the human’s best strength. ‘The human being must become better and more evil’– thus teach. What is most evil is necessary for the Overhuman’s best.

‘The human being must become better and more evil’– thus teach. What is most evil is necessary for the Overhuman’s best. It may have been good for that preacher of the little people that he suffered and bore man’s sin.

Key Concepts

• ‘The human being must become better and more evil’– thus
• What is most evil is necessary for the Overhuman’s best.

Context

Continuing the revaluation, Zarathustra turns the acknowledgment of 'evil' into a normative program oriented toward the Overhuman.

Perspectives

Nietzsche

Agrees: creative-transgressive forces condemned by herd morality are required for cultural and physiological elevation; 'better' here means stronger, more affirmative, more creating.

Zarathustra

Commands his 'own' to cultivate and sublimate the strongest drives, accepting the scandal that true betterment entails becoming 'more evil' by herd standards.