We moderns: enigmas and guesses
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- 1920
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- New York, A. A. Knopf
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244 p. 19 cm
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Subject: An excerpt
Subject: An excerpt
The Great Immoralists
The morality of Nietzsche is more strict and exacting than that of Christianity. When the Christians argue against it, therefore, they are arguing in favour of a morality more comfortable, pleasing and indulgent to the natural man; consequently, even on religious grounds, of a morality more immoral. What! is Nietzsche, then, the great moralist, and are the Christians the great immoralists?
This notion may appear to us absurd, or merely ingenious, but will it appear so to future generations? Will timidity, conformity, mediocrity, judicious blindness, unwillingness to offend, be synonymous, to them also, with morality? Or will they look back upon Christianity as a creed too indulgent and not noble enough? As a sort of Epicureanism, for instance?
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The Free Lance Books series from Alfred A. Knopf:
1. Youth and Egolatry
Pío Baroja
2. Ventures in Common Sense
E. W. Howe
3. The Antichrist
F. W. Nietzsche
4. We Moderns
Edwin Muir
5. Democracy and the Will to Power
James N. Wood
6. In Defence of Women
H. L. Mencken
All six have been edited, and have an introduction, by H. L. Mencken. “Other volumes in preparation.”
The morality of Nietzsche is more strict and exacting than that of Christianity. When the Christians argue against it, therefore, they are arguing in favour of a morality more comfortable, pleasing and indulgent to the natural man; consequently, even on religious grounds, of a morality more immoral. What! is Nietzsche, then, the great moralist, and are the Christians the great immoralists?
This notion may appear to us absurd, or merely ingenious, but will it appear so to future generations? Will timidity, conformity, mediocrity, judicious blindness, unwillingness to offend, be synonymous, to them also, with morality? Or will they look back upon Christianity as a creed too indulgent and not noble enough? As a sort of Epicureanism, for instance?
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The Free Lance Books series from Alfred A. Knopf:
1. Youth and Egolatry
Pío Baroja
2. Ventures in Common Sense
E. W. Howe
3. The Antichrist
F. W. Nietzsche
4. We Moderns
Edwin Muir
5. Democracy and the Will to Power
James N. Wood
6. In Defence of Women
H. L. Mencken
All six have been edited, and have an introduction, by H. L. Mencken. “Other volumes in preparation.”
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