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Full Idea
Actual morality is infinitely more subtle, more complicated, more thoughtful than theoretical morality: the latter still stands awkward and embarrassed at the starting point.
Gist of Idea
Actual morality is more complicated and subtle than theory (which gets paralysed)
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1881-82 [1882], 7[202])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'The Joyful Science, and 1881-82 fragments (v 6)', ed/tr. Del Caro,Adrian [Stanford 2023], p.273
A Reaction
Glad to find an explicit endorsement of particularism in Nietzsche, since so much of his discussion points that way.