“ Morality is only an interpretation of certain phenomena ”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols (1889). copy citation
Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
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Source | Twilight of the Idols |
Topic | morality interpretation |
Date | 1889 |
Language | English |
Reference | |
Note | Translated by Anthony M. Ludovici |
Weblink | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/52263/52263-h/52263-h.htm |
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“This demand is the result of a point of view which I was the first to formulate: that there are no such things as moral facts. Moral judgment has this in common with the religious one, that it believes in realities which are not real. Morality is only an interpretation of certain phenomena: or, more strictly speaking, a misinterpretation of them. Moral judgment, like the religious one, belongs to a stage of ignorance in which even the concept of reality, the distinction between real and imagined things, is still lacking:”
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