{"id":477,"date":"2015-03-29T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T10:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=477"},"modified":"2015-03-28T10:15:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T14:15:18","slug":"the-will-to-power-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=477","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 \/>II: Criticism of Morality<\/p>\n<p><b>&#0167;258<\/b> &#0160; My attempt to understand moral judgments as symptoms and sign languages which betray the processes of physiological prosperity or failure, likewise the consciousness of the conditions for preservation and growth &#8212; a mode of interpretations of the same worth as astrology, prejudices prompted by the instincts (of races,communities, of the various stages of life, as youth or decay, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>Applied to the specific Christian-European morality: Our moral judgments are signs of decline, of disbelief in life, a preparation for pessimism.<\/p>\n<p>My chief proposition: there are no moral phenomena, there is only a moral interpretation of these phenomena.  This interpretation itself is of extra-moral origin.<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean that our interpretation has projected a contradiction into existence?  Of decisive importance: behind all other valuations these moral evaluations stand in command.  Supposing they were abolished, according to what would we measure then?  And then of what value would be knowledge, etc? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed HithertoII: Criticism of Morality &#0167;258 &#0160; My attempt to understand moral judgments as symptoms and sign languages which betray the processes of physiological prosperity or failure, likewise the consciousness &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=477\">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\/477"}],"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=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}