{"id":1120,"date":"2015-05-27T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2015-05-26T05:55:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T09:55:57","slug":"the-will-to-power-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1120","title":{"rendered":"<i>The Will to Power<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><i>Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed Hitherto<\/i><br \/>IV: How Virtue Is Made to Dominate<\/p>\n<p><b>&#0167;313<\/b> &#0160; We should begin to entertain doubts concerning a man if we heard that he required reasons in order to remain respectable: we should, in any case, certainly avoid his society.  The little word \u201cfor\u201d in certain cases may be compromising; sometimes a single \u201cfor\u201c is enough to refute oneself.  If we should hear, in course of time, that such an aspirant for virtue was in need of bad reasons in order to remain respectable, it would not tend to increase our respect for him.  But he goes further; he comes to us and tells us quite openly: \u201cYou disturb my morality with your disbelief, Mr.  Sceptic; so long as you cannot believe in my bad reasons, that is to say, in my God, in a disciplinary Beyond, in free will, etc.  you put obstacles in the way of my virtue &#8211;.&#8221;  Moral: sceptics must be suppressed: they prevent the moralisation of the masses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed HithertoIV: How Virtue Is Made to Dominate &#0167;313 &#0160; We should begin to entertain doubts concerning a man if we heard that he required reasons in order to remain &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1120\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}