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'Actions', 'The Will to Power (notebooks)' and 'Letters to Queen Charlotte'
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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / a. Nature of virtue
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The great error is to think that happiness derives from virtue, which in turn derives from free will [Nietzsche]
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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / b. Living naturally
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Not "return to nature", for there has never yet been a natural humanity [Nietzsche]
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'Love your enemy' is unnatural, for the natural law says 'love your neighbour and hate your enemy' [Nietzsche]
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Be natural! But how, if one happens to be "unnatural"? [Nietzsche]
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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / c. Motivation for virtue
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We would avoid a person who always needed reasons for remaining decent [Nietzsche]
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Virtue is pursued from self-interest and prudence, and reduces people to non-entities [Nietzsche]
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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / f. The Mean
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The instinct of the herd, the majority, aims for the mean, in the middle [Nietzsche]
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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues
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A path to power: to introduce a new virtue under the name of an old one [Nietzsche]
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Modesty, industriousness, benevolence and temperance are the virtues of a good slave [Nietzsche]
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Many virtues are merely restraints on the most creative qualities of a human being [Nietzsche]
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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / c. Justice
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When powerless one desires freedom; if power is too weak, one desires equal power ('justice') [Nietzsche]
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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / e. Honour
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The supposed great lovers of honour (Alexander etc) were actually great despisers of honour [Nietzsche]
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