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Chapter 4 Chapter 01 "Good and Evil", "Good and Bad" (4)

moral genealogy 尼采 666Words 2018-03-20
A question pointed me in the right direction, which was originally posed because various words and scripts for "good" appeared in etymology: here I found that all these names refer to Let’s go back to the same concept transformation——the hierarchical meaning of the basic concept is often "noble" and "noble", and from this it must be transformed into "good" which means "noble spirit" and "noble" and contains "noble spirit" , "good" in the sense of "spiritual privilege"; this transformation is always accompanied by another transformation, "common", "vulgar", "low" is finally transformed into the concept of "bad", after which The most powerful example of a transformation is the German word "bad" itself; the word "bad" ("Schlecht") and "simple"

("Schlicht") generic - compare "straightforward" ("Schlechtweg", literal translation: "bad way"), "simply unbearable" ("Schlechter-dings", literal translation: "bad things") - thus " That's how the word "bad" originally puts the simple, common man in opposition to the noble.It was around the time of the Thirty Years' War, that is to say, very late, that the above content was transformed into the current common meaning. —This presents an important clue to my research on the genealogy of morality, which was found so late because in the modern world, the bias of democracy exerts a hindering influence on all efforts to trace the roots, even Even the field of natural science and physiology, which seems to be the most objective, is no exception. Of course, I can only point out problems here.So what kind of special harm can this kind of prejudice cause to morality and history once it ignites the flames of hatred?This has been shown by the notorious Booker incident.The populism of the modern spirit, which originated in England, erupted again on its native soil with the intensity of an erupting volcano, with that deadly, over-noisy, brutal undisputed voice. ——

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