Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed Hitherto
II: Criticism of Morality§272 My desire is to show the absolute homogeneity of all phenomena, and to ascribe to moral differentiations but the value of perspective; to show that all that which is praised as moral is essentially the same as that which is immoral, and was only made possible according to the law of all moral development — that is to say, by means of immoral artifices and with a view to immoral ends, just as all that which has been decried as immoral is, from the standpoint of economics, both superior and essential; and how development leading to a greater abundance of life necessarily involves progress in the realm of immorality. “Truth” the extent to which we allow ourselves to comprehend this fact.