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Single Idea 24098
[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 3. Punishment / a. Right to punish
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Full Idea
The reasons used to justify the punishment for a crime can also be used to justify the crime.
Gist of Idea
Reasons that justify punishment can also justify the crime
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1881-82 [1882], 3[312])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'The Joyful Science, and 1881-82 fragments (v 6)', ed/tr. Del Caro,Adrian [Stanford 2023], p.77
A Reaction
A splendid observation, even if it is not wholly true. The justification of capital punishment appeals in some way to the whole of society, but a murderer could hardly do that.
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40 ideas
from 'Unpublished Notebooks 1881-82'
24096
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Unlike time, space is subjective. Empty space was assumed, but it doesn't exist
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24084
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Seeing with other eyes is more egoism, but exploring other perspectives leads to objectivity
[Nietzsche]
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24085
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For absolute morality a goal for mankind is needed
[Nietzsche]
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24086
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The goal is to settle human beings, like other animals, but humans are still changeable
[Nietzsche]
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24087
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People who miss beauty seek the sublime, where even the ugly shows its 'beauty'
[Nietzsche]
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24088
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See our present lives as eternal! Religions see it as fleeting, and aim at some different life
[Nietzsche]
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24089
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Essences are fictions needed for beings who represent things
[Nietzsche]
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24115
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There is no proof that we forget things - only that we can't recall
[Nietzsche]
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24090
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Our inclinations would not conflict if we were a unity; we imagine unity for our multiplicity
[Nietzsche]
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24091
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The sublimity of nature which dwarfs us was a human creation
[Nietzsche]
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24116
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Justice says people are not equal, and should become increasingly unequal
[Nietzsche]
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24092
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I tell the truth, even if it is repulsive
[Nietzsche]
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24093
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We can aspire to greatness by creating new functions for ourselves
[Nietzsche]
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24117
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We need lower and higher drives, but they must be under firm control
[Nietzsche]
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24094
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Humans are vividly aware of short-term effects, and almost ignorant of the long-term ones
[Nietzsche]
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24095
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Our growth is too subtle to perceive, and long events are too slow for us to grasp
[Nietzsche]
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24118
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Do away with punishment. Counter-retribution is as bad as the crime
[Nietzsche]
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24119
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The eternal return of wastefulness is a terrible thought
[Nietzsche]
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24120
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Great orators lead their arguments, rather than following them
[Nietzsche]
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24122
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Life is forces conjoined by nutrition, to produce resistance, arrangement and value
[Nietzsche]
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24123
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My eternal recurrence is opposed to feeling fragmented and imperfect
[Nietzsche]
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24097
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The pragmatics of language is more comprehensible than the meaning
[Nietzsche]
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24098
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Reasons that justify punishment can also justify the crime
[Nietzsche]
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24121
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Greeks might see modern analysis of what is human as impious
[Nietzsche]
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24099
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We contain many minds, which fight for the 'I' of the mind
[Nietzsche]
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24100
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If you don't want war, remove your borders; but you set up borders because you want war
[Nietzsche]
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24101
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We always assign values, but we may not value those values
[Nietzsche]
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24102
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Thoughts are signs (just as words are)
[Nietzsche]
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24103
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You should not want too many virtues; one is enough
[Nietzsche]
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24104
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We don't create logic, time and space! The mind obeys laws because they are true
[Nietzsche]
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24105
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Drives make us feel non-feelings; Will is the effect of those feelings
[Nietzsche]
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24106
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Talk of 'utility' presupposes that what is useful to people has been defined
[Nietzsche]
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24107
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Once a drive controls the intellect, it rules, and sets the goals
[Nietzsche]
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24108
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Actions are just a release of force. They seize on something, which becomes the purpose
[Nietzsche]
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24109
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Actual morality is more complicated and subtle than theory (which gets paralysed)
[Nietzsche]
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24110
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Some things we would never do, even for the highest ideals
[Nietzsche]
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24111
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Happiness is the active equilibrium of our drives
[Nietzsche]
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24112
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To think about being we must have an opinion about what it is
[Nietzsche]
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24113
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Our motives don't explain our actions
[Nietzsche]
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24114
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The pain in truth is when it destroys a belief
[Nietzsche]
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