Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed Hitherto
II: Criticism of Morality§268 Two types of morality must not be confounded: the morality with which the instinct that has remained healthy defends itself from incipient decadence, and the other morality by means of which this decadence asserts itself, justifies itself and leads downwards. The first-named is usually stoical, hard, tyrannical (Stoicism itself was an example of the sort of “drag-chain “morality we speak of); the other is gushing, sentimental, full of secrets, it has the women and “beautiful feelings” on its side (Primitive Christianity was an example of this morality).