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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / a. Preconditions for ethics
2902 Healthy morality is dominated by an instinct for life [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / b. Defining ethics
7136 Morality is a system of values which accompanies a being's life [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / d. Ethical theory
20230 The very idea of a critique of morality is regarded as immoral! [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism
7163 Morality is merely interpretations, which are extra-moral in origin [Nietzsche]
18311 Philosophers hate values having an origin, and want values to be self-sufficient [Nietzsche]
18324 There are no moral facts, and moralists believe in realities which do not exist [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility
14807 The history of morality rests on an error called 'responsibility', which rests on an error called 'free will' [Nietzsche]
14824 It is absurd to blame nature and necessity; we should no more praise actions than we praise plants or artworks [Nietzsche]
14823 Ceasing to believe in human responsibility is bitter, if you had based the nobility of humanity on it [Nietzsche]
22473 Nietzsche said the will doesn't exist, so it can't ground moral responsibility [Nietzsche, by Foot]
4521 None of the ancients had the courage to deny morality by denying free will [Nietzsche]
2904 The doctrine of free will has been invented essentially in order to blame and punish people [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / h. Against ethics
20234 Morality prevents us from developing better customs [Nietzsche]
3793 We must question the very value of moral values [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / a. Idealistic ethics
2860 The most boring and dangerous of all errors is Plato's invention of pure spirit and goodness [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics
14812 Intellect is tied to morality, because it requires good memory and powerful imagination [Nietzsche]
2921 Philosophy grasps the limits of human reason, and values are beyond it [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / c. Ethical intuitionism
4496 'Conscience' is invented to value actions by intention and conformity to 'law', rather than consequences [Nietzsche]
2933 Why do you listen to the voice of your conscience? [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / d. Biological ethics
18297 We created meanings, to maintain ourselves [Nietzsche]
7147 Values are innate and inherited [Nietzsche]
1568 Nietzsche felt that Plato's views downgraded the human body and its brevity of life [Nietzsche, by Roochnik]
7190 Our values express an earlier era's conditions for survival and growth [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
24093 We can aspire to greatness by creating new functions for ourselves [Nietzsche]
24121 Greeks might see modern analysis of what is human as impious [Nietzsche]
24107 Once a drive controls the intellect, it rules, and sets the goals [Nietzsche]
20128 Each person has a fixed constitution, which makes them a particular type of person [Nietzsche, by Leiter]
22503 Nietzsche could only revalue human values for a different species [Nietzsche, by Foot]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / f. Übermensch
2883 Noble people see themselves as the determiners of values [Nietzsche]
8041 The superman is a monstrous oddity, not a serious idea [MacIntyre on Nietzsche]
20135 Nietzsche's higher type of man is much more important than the idealised 'superman' [Nietzsche, by Leiter]
23440 Nietzsche's judgement of actions by psychology instead of outcome was poisonous [Foot on Nietzsche]
23208 Caesar and Napoleon point to the future, when they pursue their task regardless of human sacrifice [Nietzsche]
23193 Napoleon was very focused, and rightly ignored compassion [Nietzsche]
4408 The concept of 'good' was created by aristocrats to describe their own actions [Nietzsche]
23716 A strong rounded person soon forgets enemies, misfortunes, and even misdeeds [Nietzsche]
20136 There is an extended logic to a great man's life, achieved by a sustained will [Nietzsche]
20358 The highest man can endure and control the greatest combination of powerful drives [Nietzsche]
20369 The highest man directs the values of the highest natures over millenia [Nietzsche]
20138 Christianity is at war with the higher type of man, and excommunicates his basic instincts [Nietzsche]
14810 Originally it was the rulers who requited good for good and evil for evil who were called 'good' [Nietzsche]
20141 Higher human beings see and hear far more than others, and do it more thoughtfully [Nietzsche]
18293 The noble man wants new virtues; the good man preserves what is old [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / g. Will to power
24076 A morality ranks human drives and actions, for the sake of the herd, and subordinating individuals [Nietzsche]
20353 The 'will to power' is basically applied to drives and forces, not to people [Nietzsche, by Richardson]
20129 All animals strive for the ideal conditions to express their power, and hate any hindrances [Nietzsche]
4506 There is a conspiracy (a will to power) to make morality dominate other values, like knowledge and art [Nietzsche]
4514 The basic tendency of the weak has always been to pull down the strong, using morality [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism
20237 Moral feelings are entirely different from the moral concepts used to judge actions [Nietzsche]
20238 Treating morality as feelings is just obeying your ancestors [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention
22471 Nietzsche thought it 'childish' to say morality isn't binding because it varies between cultures [Nietzsche, by Foot]
2875 That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / k. Ethics from nature
2868 Nature is totally indifferent, so you should try to be different from it, not live by it [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / a. Nature of value
24149 Values need a perspective, of preserving some aspect of life [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / c. Objective value
24085 For absolute morality a goal for mankind is needed [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / d. Subjective value
24101 We always assign values, but we may not value those values [Nietzsche]
20370 All evaluation is from some perspective, and aims at survival [Nietzsche]
20354 The ruling drives of our culture all want to be the highest court of our values [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / e. Means and ends
7201 Knowledge, wisdom and goodness only have value relative to a goal [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / c. Life
18321 To evaluate life one must know it, but also be situated outside of it [Nietzsche]
2893 In every age the wisest people have judged life to be worthless [Nietzsche]
2894 Value judgements about life can never be true [Nietzsche]
20243 Human beings are not majestic, either through divine origins, or through grand aims [Nietzsche]
2895 The value of life cannot be estimated [Nietzsche]
18308 A philosopher fails in wisdom if he thinks the value of life is a problem [Nietzsche]
18322 When we establish values, that is life itself establishing them, through us [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / e. Death
20268 Most dying people have probably lost more important things than what they are about to lose [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / f. Altruism
14831 No one has ever done anything that was entirely for other people [Nietzsche]
7205 Altruism is praised by the egoism of the weak, who want everyone to be looked after [Nietzsche]
4505 How can it be that I should prefer my neighbour to myself, but he should prefer me to himself? [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love
14855 Simultaneous love and respect are impossible; love has no separation or rank, but respect admits power [Nietzsche]
20236 Marriage upholds the idea that love, though a passion, can endure [Nietzsche]
20263 Fear reveals the natures of other people much more clearly than love does [Nietzsche]
20252 Marriage is too serious to be permitted for people in love! [Nietzsche]
24148 If you love something, it is connected with everything, so all must be affirmed as good [Nietzsche]
20113 Friendly chats undermine my philosophy; wanting to be right at the expense of love is folly [Nietzsche]
18319 Love is the spiritualisation of sensuality [Nietzsche]
18301 We only really love children and work [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / h. Fine deeds
14815 We get enormous pleasure from tales of noble actions [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / i. Self-interest
2886 The distinction between egoistic and non-egoistic acts is absurd [Nietzsche]
24135 Egoism should not assume that all egos are equal [Nietzsche]
7141 A living being is totally 'egoistic' [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / c. Right and good
2882 Morality originally judged people, and actions only later on [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / d. Good as virtue
2903 A good human will be virtuous because they are happy [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism
24094 Humans are vividly aware of short-term effects, and almost ignorant of the long-term ones [Nietzsche]
2872 In the earliest phase of human history only consequences mattered [Nietzsche]
4509 Utilitarians prefer consequences because intentions are unknowable - but so are consequences! [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / i. Moral luck
20233 Punishment has distorted the pure innocence of the contingency of outcomes [Nietzsche]
4426 A bad result distorts one's judgement about the virtue of what one has done [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / a. Nature of happiness
7168 Modest people express happiness as 'Not bad' [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / c. Value of happiness
2891 Only the English actually strive after happiness [Nietzsche]
18307 I want my work, not happiness! [Nietzsche]
4558 We have no more right to 'happiness' than worms [Nietzsche]
4500 It is a sign of degeneration when eudaimonistic values begin to prevail [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness
14884 The shortest path to happiness is forgetfulness, the path of animals (but of little value) [Nietzsche]
14849 We can only achieve happy moments, not happy eras [Nietzsche]
24111 Happiness is the active equilibrium of our drives [Nietzsche]
7159 The only happiness is happiness with illusion [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / a. Nature of pleasure
7197 Pleasure needs dissatisfaction, boundaries and resistances [Nietzsche]
4550 Pleasure and pain are mere epiphenomena, and achievement requires that one desire both [Nietzsche]