{"id":538,"date":"2015-04-01T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=538"},"modified":"2015-03-31T15:04:03","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T19:04:03","slug":"the-will-to-power-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=538","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;261<\/b> &#0160; What is the criterion of a moral action?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p>Its disinterestedness, and &#8230;<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>its universal acceptation, etc.<\/ol>\n<p>But this is parlour-morality.  Races must be studied and observed and, in each case, the criterion must be discovered, as also the thing it expresses: a belief such as: \u201cThis particular attitude or behaviour belongs to the principal condition of our existence\u201d.  Immoral means \u201cthat which brings about ruin\u201d.  Now all societies in which these principles were discovered have met with their ruin: a few of these principles have been used and used again, because every newly established community required them; this was the case, for instance, with \u201cThou shalt not steal\u201d.  In ages when people could not be expected to show any marked social instinct (as, for instance, in the age of the Roman Empire) the latter was, religiously speaking, directed towards the idea of \u201cspiritual salvation\u201d, or, in philosophical parlance, towards \u201cthe greatest happiness\u201d.  For even the philosophers of Greece did not feel any more for their polis?<\/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;261 &#0160; What is the criterion of a moral action? Its disinterestedness, and &#8230; its universal acceptation, etc. But this is parlour-morality. Races must be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=538\">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\/538"}],"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=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}