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Ideas for 'Action', 'Twilight of the Idols' and 'The iterative conception of Set'

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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / a. Preconditions for ethics
2902 Healthy morality is dominated by an instinct for life [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: All naturalism in morality, that is all healthy morality, is dominated by an instinct for life.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols [1889], 4.4)
     A reaction: Sounds right. There is no reasoning against a moral nihilist, because they seem to have no instinct in favour of life. It is the given of morality.
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism
18311 Philosophers hate values having an origin, and want values to be self-sufficient [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: For philosophers, the higher must not be allowed to grow out of the lower, must not be allowed to have grown at all ...Moral: everything of the first rank must be causa sui. Origin in something else counts as an objection, as casting a doubt on value.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols [1889], 2.4)
     A reaction: This is so deep and central that I wrote a paper on it, advocating that the theory of values should focus of value-makers.
18324 There are no moral facts, and moralists believe in realities which do not exist [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: An insight formulated by me: that there are no moral facts whatever. Moral judgement has this in common with religious judgement that it believes in realities which do not exist.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols [1889], 6.1)
     A reaction: Not only a slogan for non-cognitivism, but also a clear statement of the error theory about morality, a century before John Mackie.
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility
2904 The doctrine of free will has been invented essentially in order to blame and punish people [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: The doctrine of will has been invented essentially for the purpose of punishment, that is of finding guilty.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols [1889], 5.7)
     A reaction: Michael Frede says free will was invented to feel wholly in charge of our own actions. I doubt whether punishment was the first motive. The will just gives a simple explanation of actions.