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Single Idea 20272
[filed under theme 23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues
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Full Idea
Among neither the Socratic nor the Christian virtues does honesty appear: it is one of the youngest virtues, still quite immature. ...We can advance it or retard it, as we see fit.
Gist of Idea
Honesty is a new young virtue, and we can promote it, or not
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Dawn (Daybreak) [1881], 456)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Dawn (Daybreak) (v 5)', ed/tr. Smith, Brittain [Stanford 2011], p.233
A Reaction
I associate the virtue of honesty with the cult of sincerity of feelings which arose in the romantic movement.
The
48 ideas
from 'Dawn (Daybreak)'
20230
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The very idea of a critique of morality is regarded as immoral!
[Nietzsche]
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20229
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No authority ever willingly accepts criticism
[Nietzsche]
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20380
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Why should truth be omnipotent? It is enough that it is very powerful
[Nietzsche]
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20231
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People used to think that outcomes were from God, rather than consequences of acts
[Nietzsche]
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20232
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Get rid of the idea of punishment! It is a noxious weed!
[Nietzsche]
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20233
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Punishment has distorted the pure innocence of the contingency of outcomes
[Nietzsche]
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20234
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Morality prevents us from developing better customs
[Nietzsche]
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20235
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Like animals, we seek truth because we want safety
[Nietzsche]
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20236
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Marriage upholds the idea that love, though a passion, can endure
[Nietzsche]
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20237
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Moral feelings are entirely different from the moral concepts used to judge actions
[Nietzsche]
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20238
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Treating morality as feelings is just obeying your ancestors
[Nietzsche]
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20240
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The Jews treated great anger as holy, and were in awe of those who expressed it
[Nietzsche]
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20241
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Enquirers think finding our origin is salvation, but it turns out to be dull
[Nietzsche]
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20242
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Things are the boundaries of humanity, so all things must be known, for self-knowledge
[Nietzsche]
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20243
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Human beings are not majestic, either through divine origins, or through grand aims
[Nietzsche]
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20244
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Christianity replaces rational philosophical virtues with great passions focused on God
[Nietzsche]
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20245
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Christianity hoped for a short cut to perfection, that skipped the hard labour of morality
[Nietzsche]
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20246
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If you feel to others as they feel to themselves, you must hate a self-hater
[Nietzsche]
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20247
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Christianity was successful because of its heathen rituals
[Nietzsche]
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20248
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People do nothing for their real ego, but only for a phantom ego created by other people
[Nietzsche]
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20249
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Our knowledge of the many drives that constitute us is hopelessly incomplete
[Nietzsche]
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20250
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We may be unable to remember, but we may never actually forget
[Nietzsche]
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20251
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Actions done for a purpose are least understood, because we complacently think it's obvious
[Nietzsche]
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20252
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Marriage is too serious to be permitted for people in love!
[Nietzsche]
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20253
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Modern wars arise from the study of history
[Nietzsche]
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20254
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People govern for the pleasure of it, or just to avoid being governed
[Nietzsche]
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20255
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Early 19th century German philosophers enjoyed concepts, rather than scientific explanations
[Nietzsche]
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20256
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What we think is totally dictated by the language available to express it
[Nietzsche]
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20257
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Cool courage and feverish bravery have one name, but are two very different virtues
[Nietzsche]
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20258
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Most people treat knowledge as a private possession
[Nietzsche]
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20259
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Teach youth to respect people who differ with them, not people who agree with them
[Nietzsche]
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20260
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Carlyle spent his life vainly trying to make reason appear romantic
[Nietzsche]
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20261
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History does not concern what really happened, but supposed events, which have all the influence
[Nietzsche]
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20262
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Don't use wisdom in order to become clever!
[Nietzsche]
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20263
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Fear reveals the natures of other people much more clearly than love does
[Nietzsche]
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20264
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The easy and graceful aspects of a person are called 'soul', and inner awkwardness is called 'soulless'
[Nietzsche]
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20265
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The desire for a complete system requires making the weak parts look equal to the rest
[Nietzsche]
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20266
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It is essential that wise people learn to express their wisdom, possibly even as foolishness
[Nietzsche]
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20267
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Seeing duty as a burden makes it a bit cruel, and it can thus never become a habit
[Nietzsche]
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20268
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Most dying people have probably lost more important things than what they are about to lose
[Nietzsche]
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20269
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'I believe because it is absurd' - but how about 'I believe because I am absurd'
[Nietzsche]
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20270
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There is no one scientific method; we must try many approaches, and many emotions
[Nietzsche]
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20271
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Beauty in art is the imitation of happiness
[Nietzsche]
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20272
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Honesty is a new young virtue, and we can promote it, or not
[Nietzsche]
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20273
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The French Revolution gave trusting Europe the false delusion of instant recovery
[Nietzsche]
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20274
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The cardinal virtues want us to be honest, brave, magnanimous and polite
[Nietzsche]
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20275
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Most people think they are already complete, but we can cultivate ourselves
[Nietzsche]
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20131
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We can cultivate our drives, of anger, pity, curiosity, vanity, like a gardener, with good or bad taste
[Nietzsche]
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