        item: #1 of 10
          id: chapter_0-preface
      author: Nietzsche
       title: Chapter 0: Preface
        date: 1886
       words: 716
      flesch: 53
     summary: Let us not be ungrateful to it, although it must certainly be confessed that the worst, the most tiresome, and the most dangerous of errors hitherto has been a dogmatist error--namely, Plato's invention of Pure Spirit and the Good in Itself. It amounted to the very inversion of truth, and the denial of the PERSPECTIVE--the fundamental condition--of life, to speak of Spirit and the Good as Plato spoke of them; indeed one might ask, as a physician: How did such a malady attack that finest product of antiquity, Plato?
    keywords: good; plato
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        item: #2 of 10
          id: chapter_1-prejudices_philosophers
      author: Nietzsche
       title: Chapter 1: Prejudices Philosophers
        date: 1886
       words: 7573
      flesch: 52
     summary: And to speak in all seriousness, I see such new philosophers beginning to appear. by another question, Why is belief in such judgments necessary?--in effect, it is high time that we should understand that such judgments must be believed to be true, for the sake of the preservation of creatures like ourselves; though they still might naturally be false judgments!
    keywords: belief; fact; life; means; nature; philosophers; philosophy; soul; thing; truth; world
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          id: chapter_2-free_spirit
      author: Nietzsche
       title: Chapter 2: Free Spirit
        date: 1886
       words: 6836
      flesch: 54
     summary: Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority--where he may forget men who are the rule, as their exception;--exclusive only of the case in which he is pushed straight to such men by a still stronger instinct, as a discerner in the great and exceptional sense. The intention as the sole origin and antecedent history of an action: under the influence of this prejudice moral praise and blame have been bestowed, and men have judged and even philosophized almost up to the present day.--Is it not possible, however, that the necessity may now have arisen of again making up our minds with regard to the reversing and fundamental shifting of values, owing to a new self-consciousness and acuteness in man--is it not possible that we may be standing on the threshold of a period which to begin with, would be distinguished negatively as ULTRA-MORAL: nowadays when, at least among us immoralists, the suspicion arises that the decisive value of an action lies precisely in that which is NOT INTENTIONAL, and that all its intentionalness, all that is seen, sensible, or sensed in it, belongs to its surface or skin--which, like every skin, betrays something, but CONCEALS still more?
    keywords: free; good; hitherto; life; man; men; philosophers; sense; things; truth; world
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          id: chapter_3-religious_mood
      author: Nietzsche
       title: Chapter 3: Religious Mood
        date: 1886
       words: 5610
      flesch: 43
     summary: Among men, as among all other animals, there is a surplus of defective, diseased, degenerating, infirm, and necessarily suffering individuals; the successful cases, among men also, are always the exception; and in view of the fact that man is THE ANIMAL NOT YET PROPERLY ADAPTED TO HIS ENVIRONMENT, the rare exception. The practical indifference to religious matters in the midst of which he has been born and brought up, usually sublimates itself in his case into circumspection and cleanliness, which shuns contact with religious men and things; and it may be just the depth of his tolerance and humanity which prompts him to avoid the delicate trouble which tolerance itself brings with it.--Every age has its own divine type of naivete, for the discovery of which other ages may envy it: and how much naivete--adorable, childlike, and boundlessly foolish naivete is involved in this belief of the scholar in his superiority, in the good conscience of his tolerance, in the unsuspecting, simple certainty with which his instinct treats the religious man as a lower and less valuable type, beyond, before, and ABOVE which he himself has developed--he, the little arrogant dwarf and mob-man, the sedulously alert, head-and-hand drudge of ideas, of modern ideas! 59.
    keywords: conscience; faith; god; man; means; men; religion; self; time; type
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          id: chapter_4-apophthegms_and_interludes
      author: Nietzsche
       title: Chapter 4: Apophthegms and Interludes
        date: 1886
       words: 2595
      flesch: 83
     summary: One does not believe in the follies of clever men: what a forfeiture of the rights of man! 179. It is not the strength, but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.
    keywords: god; good; love; man; woman
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        item: #6 of 10
          id: chapter_5-natural_history_morals
      author: Nietzsche
       title: Chapter 5: Natural History Morals
        date: 1886
       words: 7176
      flesch: 36
     summary: That which philosophers called giving a basis to morality, and endeavoured to realize, has, when seen in a right light, proved merely a learned form of good FAITH in prevailing morality, a new means of its EXPRESSION, consequently just a matter-of-fact within the sphere of a definite morality, yea, in its ultimate motive, a sort of denial that it is LAWFUL for this morality to be called in question--and in any case the reverse of the testing, analyzing, doubting, and vivisecting of this very faith. Punishment itself is terrible!--with these questions gregarious morality, the morality of fear, draws its ultimate conclusion.
    keywords: good; herd; instinct; man; mankind; means; morality; morals; nature; people; reason
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        item: #7 of 10
          id: chapter_6-we_scholars
      author: Nietzsche
       title: Chapter 6: We Scholars
        date: 1886
       words: 6454
      flesch: 37
     summary: They have always disclosed how much hypocrisy, indolence, self-indulgence, and self-neglect, how much falsehood was concealed under the most venerated types of contemporary morality, how much virtue was OUTLIVED, they have always said We must remove hence to where YOU are least at home In the face of a world of modern ideas, which would like to confine every one in a corner, in a specialty, a philosopher, if there could be philosophers nowadays, would be compelled to place the greatness of man, the conception of greatness, precisely in his comprehensiveness and multifariousness, in his all-roundness, he would even determine worth and rank according to the amount and variety of that which a man could bear and take upon himself, according to the EXTENT to which a man could stretch his responsibility Nowadays the taste and virtue of the age weaken and attenuate the will, nothing is so adapted to the spirit of the age as weakness of will consequently, in the ideal of the philosopher, strength of will, sternness, and capacity for prolonged resolution, must specially be included in the conception of greatness, with as good a right as the opposite doctrine, with its ideal of a silly, renouncing, humble, selfless humanity, was suited to an opposite age--such as the sixteenth century, which suffered from its accumulated energy of will, and from the wildest torrents and floods of selfishness In the time of Socrates, among men only of worn-out instincts, old conservative Athenians who let themselves go--for the sake of happiness, as they said, for the sake of pleasure, as their conduct indicated--and who had continually on their lips the old pompous words to which they had long forfeited the right by the life they led, IRONY was perhaps necessary for greatness of soul, the wicked Socratic assurance of the old physician and plebeian, who cut ruthlessly into his own flesh, as into the flesh and heart of the noble, with a look that said plainly enough Do not dissemble before me! Have there ever been such philosophers?
    keywords: german; good; man; philosophers; philosophy; science; self; skepticism; spirit; time
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        item: #8 of 10
          id: chapter_7-our_virtues
      author: Nietzsche
       title: Chapter 7: Our Virtues
        date: 1886
       words: 8000
      flesch: 49
     summary: Woman wishes to be independent, and therefore she begins to enlighten men about woman as she is--THIS is one of the worst developments of the general UGLIFYING of Europe. Woman has so much cause for shame; in woman there is so much pedantry, superficiality, schoolmasterliness, petty presumption, unbridledness, and indiscretion concealed--study only woman's behaviour towards children!--which has really been best restrained and dominated hitherto by the FEAR of man.
    keywords: cruelty; hitherto; love; men; power; self; sense; spirit; sympathy; taste; things; virtues; woman
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        item: #9 of 10
          id: chapter_8-peoples_and_countries
      author: Nietzsche
       title: Chapter 8: Peoples and Countries
        date: 1886
       words: 7840
      flesch: 41
     summary: If any one wishes to see the German soul demonstrated ad oculos, let him only look at German taste, at German arts and manners what boorish indifference to taste! Development is therefore the essentially German discovery and hit in the great domain of philosophical formulas,--a ruling idea, which, together with German beer and German music, is labouring to Germanise all Europe.
    keywords: art; europe; european; french; german; good; music; people; present; soul; taste; time; wagner
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          id: chapter_9-what_is_noble
      author: Nietzsche
       title: Chapter 9: What Is Noble
        date: 1886
       words: 10562
      flesch: 51
     summary: Men with a still natural nature, barbarians in every terrible sense of the word, men of prey, still in possession of unbroken strength of will and desire for power, threw themselves upon weaker, more moral, more peaceful races (perhaps trading or cattle-rearing communities), or upon old mellow civilizations in which the final vital force was flickering out in brilliant fireworks of wit and depravity. For the corruption, the ruination of higher men, of the more unusually constituted souls, is in fact, the rule: it is dreadful to have such a rule always before one's eyes.
    keywords: fact; good; hand; heart; kind; love; man; men; morality; opinion; order; self; soul; sympathy
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