(Originally written July 6, 2007 in Book 25)
Mixed Opinions and Maxims (1879)
- Nietzsche
89: Mores and their victim
Mores come from 2 places
1) The notion that society is more valuable than the individual
2) Enduring advantage is preferable to ephemeral advantage
The betterment of society long-term is more important than any individual's betterment. This maxim holds true even to the sacrifice of an individual's life.
This attitude only arises in those persons who are not victims of the mores.
Morality: "The feeling for the whole quintessence of mores under which one lives and has been brought up - brought up not as an individual but as a member of a whole, as a digit of a majority" (155).
130: Reader's bad manners
Comment: [Type it into the computer]
A bitter pill to swallow, eh Nietzsche?
137: The worst readers
Those who plunder the book to use a few things, confuse the rest and "blaspheme the whole"
145: Value of honest books
"Honest books make the reader honest" (155).
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