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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
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Beyond the Good and Evil
Nietzsche wrote:
"Everywhere that slave-morality gains the ascendency, language shows a tendency to approximate the significations of the words "good" and "stupid."--A last fundamental difference: the desire for freedom, the instinct for happiness and the refinements of the feeling of liberty belong as necessarily to slave-morals and morality, as artifice and enthusiasm in reverence and devotion are the regular symptoms of an aristocratic mode of thinking and estimatin."
Please tell me the difference in meaning between the 1st as and the second one. Could you please rephrase the blue sentence by the way?
Thank you.
Cadzao
"Everywhere that slave-morality gains the ascendency, language shows a tendency to approximate the significations of the words "good" and "stupid."--A last fundamental difference: the desire for freedom, the instinct for happiness and the refinements of the feeling of liberty belong as necessarily to slave-morals and morality, as artifice and enthusiasm in reverence and devotion are the regular symptoms of an aristocratic mode of thinking and estimatin."
Please tell me the difference in meaning between the 1st as and the second one. Could you please rephrase the blue sentence by the way?
Thank you.
Cadzao
Top answer
as comparative, but Nietzsche has taken some liberties with parallel structure: ... the desire for freedom, [etc] belong as necessarily to slave-morals and morality, as [do] artifice, [etc] [to] an aristocratic mode of thinking and estimation .
- as comparative, but Nietzsche has taken some liberties with parallel structure: ...
- the desire for freedom, [etc] belong as necessarily to slave-morals and morality, as [do] artifice, [etc] [to] an aristocratic mode of thinking and estimation .
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No difference-- it is the standard as...as comparative, but Nietzsche has taken some liberties with parallel structure:
...the desire for freedom, [etc] belong as necessarily to slave-morals and morality, as [do] artifice, [etc] [to] an aristocratic mode of thinking and estimation
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No difference-- it is the standard as...as comparative, but Nietzsche has taken some liberties with parallel structure:
...the desire for freedom, [etc] belong as necessarily to slave-morals and morality, as [do] artifice, [etc] [to] an aristocratic mode of thinking and estimation
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