[Morality Games]

A comparison between these two champions among sages.

-- They emphasize the importance of individual physiological and psychological well-being, relating the quality of values to how effectively they encourage behaviors instrumental to maintaining good health and encouraging mental and physical growth.

-- They emphasize the importance of subjective experience to the development of conscience and reject the idea that anybody is deriving their morals from a universally valid authority. That is, every being is naturally striving for their own advantage, and 'good' becomes what satisfies the most sizeable want (your will), 'bad is what interferes with acquiring this want (negates your will), and 'evil' are those entities that use their overwhelmingly superior power in the open (surpasses your will). A major project of both philosophers is overcoming the feeling other beings are evil (a crucial aspect of what Nietzsche calls Dionysian Morality).

-- Through Nietzsche's atheistic naturalism and Spinoza's pantheistic naturalism, both have a high reverence for nature, and both are monistic in that they think the only existing substance is physical.

-- Both propose there is a predetermination of events, which makes the will unfree, and feel as though excellence lies in affirming life and the world not just "in spite of" but also because of this fateful condition. For Spinoza, it is because we can live out our existence less bitterly knowing fallibilities are an inevitable part of worldly perfection, and for Nietzsche, because healthy beings love both the good and bad of their life so much that not only would they not want anything to be changed, they would also go through it again and again for all eternity.

-- Spinoza believes nature is perfect and Nietzsche believes existence is innocent. Both amount to the view that the world is immutable on its own standard, and it is only the limited perspective of the mind which induces beings to perceive things are anything other than as they should be. It is this faulty comprehension which allows for emotions, and the role of reason should be to guide ideation so that one's view of life and the world allows for a positive mentality as often as possible.