Full Idea
For the past I desire above all a moral evaluation.
Gist of Idea
We should evaluate the past morally
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1872-74 [1873], 29 [096])
Book Reference
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Unpublished of 'Unfashionable Obs' period (v 11)', ed/tr. Gray,Richard T. [Stanford 1995], p.238
A Reaction
There is a bit of a contradiction with Idea 14819, of only a few years later. He was always interested in a historical approach to morality, but I'm not sure if his ethics gives a decent basis for moral assessments of remote historical eras.
Related Idea
Idea 14819 Slavery cannot be judged by our standards, because the sense of justice was then less developed [Nietzsche]