Beyond good and evil
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Moral Disagreements, 2013•taylorfrancis.com5 BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL Page 1 81 5 BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL Friedrich Nietzsche 186
The moral sentiment in Europe today is as refined, old, diverse, irritable, and subtle, as the
“science of morals” that accompanies it is still young, raw, clumsy, and butterfingered – an
attractive contrast that occasionally even becomes visible and incarnate in the person of a
moralist. Even the term “science of morals” is much too arrogant considering what it designates,
and offends good taste – which always prefers more modest terms. One should own up in all …
The moral sentiment in Europe today is as refined, old, diverse, irritable, and subtle, as the
“science of morals” that accompanies it is still young, raw, clumsy, and butterfingered – an
attractive contrast that occasionally even becomes visible and incarnate in the person of a
moralist. Even the term “science of morals” is much too arrogant considering what it designates,
and offends good taste – which always prefers more modest terms. One should own up in all …
From Friedrich Nietzsche, “Beyond Good and Evil,” translated by Walter Kaufmann in The Basic Writings of Nietzsche, New York: Random House, 1966, pp. 287–88, 305–308, and 393–98.
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