Category: Philosophy & Ethics
1. Nihilism as an Outcome of the Valuations and Interpretations of Existence which have prevailed hitherto 2. Further Causes of Nihilism 3. The Nihilistic Movement as an Expression of Decadence 4. The Crisis: Nihilism and the Idea of Recurrence
_Virtue_ is no longer believed in; its powers of attraction are dead; what is needed is some one who will once more bring it into the market in the form of an outlandish kind of...
14. Part 14_Answer:--Three powers lie concealed behind it_; (1) The instinct of the _herd_ opposed to the strong and the independent; (2) the instinct of all _sufferers_ and all _abortions...
10. Part 10How little the subject matters! It is the spirit which gives the thing life! What a quantity of stuffy and sick-room air there is in all that chatter about "redemption," "love,"...
9. Part 9The _life which must serve as an example_ consists in love and humility; in the abundance of hearty emotion which does not even exclude the lowliest; in the formal renunciation...
13. Part 13Christianity should never be forgiven for having ruined such men as Pascal. This is precisely what should be combated in Christianity, namely, that it has the will to break the...
22. Part 22When morality--that is to say, refinement, prudence, bravery, and equity--have been stored up in the same way, thanks to the moral efforts of a whole succession of generations,...
19. Part 19Reflecting upon generalities is always retrograde: the last of the "desiderata" concerning men, for instance, have never been regarded as problems by philosophers. They always p...
2. Part 2Nihilism will have to manifest itself as a _psychological condition, first_ when we have sought in all that has happened a purpose which is not there: so that the seeker will ul...
7. Part 7_Culture_ versus _Civilisation._--The culminating stages of culture and civilisation lie apart: one must not be led astray as regards the fundamental antagonism existing between...
15. Part 15(3) That _feelings of weakness,_ inner acts of cowardice, lack of personal courage, should have decked themselves in the most beautiful words, and have been taught as desirable...
3. Part 3But only a man who no longer dares to posit a will, a purpose, and a final goal can speak in this way--according to every healthy type of man, the worth of life is certainly not...
18. Part 18_The origin of moral values._--Selfishness has as much value as the physiological value of him who possesses it. Each individual represents the whole course of Evolution, and he...
11. Part 11Christianity also means the _abolition of society,_ it prizes everything that society despises, its very growth takes place among the outcasts, the condemned, and the leprous of...
8. Part 8Thirdly: their domain of power must be very extensive, in order that its control may escape the notice of those they subject: they must know the penal code of the life beyond--o...
17. Part 17To _avoid_ knowing himself is the prudence of the idealist. The idealist: a creature who has reasons for remaining in the dark concerning himself, and who is also clever enough...
20. Part 20_Or_ our world is imperfect; evil and guilt are real, determined, and are absolutely inherent to its being; in that case it cannot be the _real_ world: consequently knowledge ca...
1. Part 11. Nihilism as an Outcome of the Valuations and Interpretations of Existence which have prevailed hitherto 2. Further Causes of Nihilism 3. The Nihilistic Movement as an Express...
5. Part 5Nowadays, when the state has a nonsensically oversized belly, in all fields and branches of work there are "representatives" over and above the real workman: for instance, in ad...
6. Part 6_Voltaire--Rousseau._--A state of nature is terrible; man is a beast of prey: our civilisation is an extraordinary _triumph_ over this beast of prey in nature--this was _Voltair...
21. Part 21To what extent psychologists have been corrupted by the moral idiosyncrasy!--Not one of the ancient philosophers had the courage to advance the theory of the non-free will (that...
4. Part 4The opposing of this fatality, the botching of mankind and the allowing of it to putrefy, was given the name "God" One shall not take the name of the Lord one's God in vain....
12. Part 12_Against remorse and its purely psychical treatment._--To be unable to have done with an experience is already a sign of decadence. This reopening of old wounds, this wallowing...
23. Part 23(2) _What_ is it that determines the highest value here? What, in sooth, is morality?--It is the instinct of _decadence_; it is the means whereby the exhausted and the degenerat...