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[from 'Writings from Late Notebooks' by Friedrich Nietzsche, in 22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism ]

Full Idea

My main proposition: there are no moral phenomena, there is only a moral interpretation of those phenomena. This interpretation itself is of extra-moral origin.

Gist of Idea

Morality is merely interpretations, which are extra-moral in origin

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Writings from Late Notebooks [1887], 02[165])

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Writings from the Late Notebooks', ed/tr. Bittner,Rüdiger [CUP 2003], p.94


A Reaction

The origin will, of course, be the 'will to power', which is the drive for survival, linking Nietzsche with sociobiology or evolutionary psychology.