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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'The Anti-Christ' and 'The Decline of the West'

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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics
2921 Philosophy grasps the limits of human reason, and values are beyond it [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: All the supreme problems of value are beyond human reason. …To grasp the limits of human reason, only this is philosophy.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (The Anti-Christ [1889], 55)
     A reaction: The single most powerful idea in the writings of Nietzsche. Reason and truth are values. Why do we value philosophy? There is no escaping Nietzsche's question.
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / f. Übermensch
20138 Christianity is at war with the higher type of man, and excommunicates his basic instincts [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: Christianity has waged a war to the death against the higher type of man, it has excommunicated all the fundamental instincts of this type.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (The Anti-Christ [1889], 05)
     A reaction: It seems rather insulting to say that the finest and most dedicated altruism practised by the most admirable Christians is the expression of a 'lower' instinct.