To Friedrich Nietzsche belongs the honour of founding the Religion of Eugenics … ... Maximilian Mügge, 'Eugenics and the Superman', Eugenics Review, 1.3, 1909, p. 191. Nietzsche is the spiritual father and forerunner of the Eugenists.

Why is Nietzsche criticized?

Nietzsche is so (consciously) deviant from mainstream philosophy that he is very difficult to engage with unless you have a lot of common ground with him already. Further, because of his (again, very conscious) self-referential, hyperbolic, terse, anti-dogmatic and anti-systematic, "deep", playful, etc.

Does Nietzsche support slavery?

Throughout his oeuvre, Nietzsche adheres to the view that slavery was, is, and will be needed: for the flowering of Ancient Greek civilisation; for the regeneration of contemporary European culture; for the establishment of a new nobility based on a new social “rank-ordering”; and for the future elevation of “man” into ...