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20240 | The Jews treated great anger as holy, and were in awe of those who expressed it [Nietzsche] |
Full Idea: The Jews felt differently about wrath than we do and decreed it holy; in return, they, as a people, viewed the foreboding majesty of the individual with whom wrath showed itself connected, at a height at which a European is incapable of imagining. | |
From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Dawn (Daybreak) [1881], 038) | |
A reaction: If you thought wrath was really wonderful then presumably you would aspire to partake of it, but I see no signs of the Jews having been an especially wrathful people. It sounds like the tantrums of Tudor monarchs, which was their royal privilege. |
20244 | Christianity replaces rational philosophical virtues with great passions focused on God [Nietzsche] |
Full Idea: Christianity disallows all moral value to the virtue of philosophers - the triumph of reason over affects - and demands that affects reveal themselves in splendour, as love of God, fear before God, fanatical faith in God, and blindest hope in God. | |
From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Dawn (Daybreak) [1881], 058) | |
A reaction: Faith, hope and charity are the three great Christian virtues that were added to the four cardinal virtues of the Greeks. |
20272 | Honesty is a new young virtue, and we can promote it, or not [Nietzsche] |
Full Idea: Among neither the Socratic nor the Christian virtues does honesty appear: it is one of the youngest virtues, still quite immature. ...We can advance it or retard it, as we see fit. | |
From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Dawn (Daybreak) [1881], 456) | |
A reaction: I associate the virtue of honesty with the cult of sincerity of feelings which arose in the romantic movement. |
20274 | The cardinal virtues want us to be honest, brave, magnanimous and polite [Nietzsche] |
Full Idea: Honest towards ourselves and whatever else is our friend; courageous toward the enemy; magnanimous toward the defeated; polite - always. This is how the four cardinal virtues want us to be. | |
From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Dawn (Daybreak) [1881], 556) | |
A reaction: I take this to be Nietzsche genuinely asserting his four cardinal virtues, rather than being ironic. He certainly asserts politeness as the fourth virtue earlier in the book. Cf a different list in Idea 20382 |
20257 | Cool courage and feverish bravery have one name, but are two very different virtues [Nietzsche] |
Full Idea: Courage as cold bravery and imperturbability, and courage as feverish, half-blind bravura - one calls both of these things by the same name! How different are the cold virtues from the warm ones! | |
From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Dawn (Daybreak) [1881], 277) | |
A reaction: How few philosophers are capable of making a subtle but accurate observation like this! How many other virtues should be subdivided? |
20259 | Teach youth to respect people who differ with them, not people who agree with them [Nietzsche] |
Full Idea: The surest way to ruin a youth is by teaching him to respect those who think like him more highly than those who think differently. | |
From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Dawn (Daybreak) [1881], 297) | |
A reaction: On the whole I prefer to read the philosophers who seem to be on my side, because I am trying to strengthen my explanation of the world, and opponents aren't much help. I do read opponents, if they explicitly challenge what I defend. |