Nietzsche against altruism

The Dawn, aphorism 132, The echo of Christianity in morality

Note the distinction between Christian morals of the pre- and post-Enlightenment periods.

It is the latter that he elsewhere connects with herd morality, slave morality and often, here and there, with democracy and socialism.

And generally right along with utilitarianism, altruism, or any ethic based on sympathy or pity, quite run together.

Any ethic calling for anything like feeling the pain of others or sacrifice, often using exactly that word, of the self for others individually or collectively.

He does not appear to have had at this time such a negative view of the sorts of ethics we nowadays might speak of as imposing side constraints on pursuit or our ends, frankly egoistic or not.

He praises the ethics of Epictetus, for example, for teaching against sympathy for the sufferings or others.

The Dawn, aphorism 131, Fashions in morality.