Key Arguments

• Because both generational caprice and despotic coercion threaten the integrity of the past, a principled opposition must arise.
• This opposition must be creative-legislative: it 'writes anew on new tablets' the term 'noble', implying a revaluation of nobility beyond inherited aristocracies.
• The solution is plural—'many nobles and many kinds of nobles'—suggesting a diversification of higher types to safeguard and elevate culture and history.

Source Quotes

Thus all that is past is abandoned: for it could come to pass one day that the rabble would become master, and all of time be drowned in shallow waters. Therefore, O my brothers, there is need of a that is the opponent of all rabble and everything despotic and writes anew on new tablets the word ‘noble’. For there is need of many nobles and many kinds of nobles,

Therefore, O my brothers, there is need of a that is the opponent of all rabble and everything despotic and writes anew on new tablets the word ‘noble’. For there is need of many nobles and many kinds of nobles,

Key Concepts

• Therefore, O my brothers, there is need of a that is the opponent of all rabble and everything despotic and writes anew on new tablets the word ‘noble’.
• For there is need of many nobles and many kinds of nobles,

Context

Culminating exhortation: from the diagnosis of abandonment and the twin dangers (despot and rabble), Zarathustra calls for a creative, anti-despotic, anti-rabble movement to re-inscribe nobility.

Perspectives

Nietzsche

Affirms the call for revaluation and rank: new nobles as plural higher types who legislate values, resisting both mass leveling and tyrannical monopolies over meaning.

Zarathustra

Summons his brothers to become the adversaries of both rabble and despot, to inscribe anew what 'noble' means and to proliferate noble forms of life.