coloradodem2005
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Sat Apr-23-05 02:39 PM
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Does Morality make stupid? |
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Morality makes stupid.-- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid.
from Nietzsche's Daybreak,s. 19, R.J. Hollingdale transl
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