Wordie: Immoralist: Comments

Comment by seanahan, about 1 year ago

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 03:49:34 +0000

That was the global "you". In general, this word doesn't mean what people who hadn't seen it before would think it would mean. I guess I should have had a "would" in there.

Comment by VanishedOne, about 1 year ago

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:27:22 +0000

Doesn't mean what who thinks? I was quoting Nietzsche's usage (in Kaufmann's translation from the German, of course).

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:58:33 +0000

That, of course, depends on your definition of "bad." ;-)

Comment by seanahan, about 1 year ago

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 15:59:23 +0000

This doesn't mean what you (would) think. This is opposition or indifference to conventional morality. It isn't such a bad thing.

Edit: would

Comment by VanishedOne, about 1 year ago

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:14:48 +0000

Probably best known from Gide's 1902 novel, but Nietzsche was using it earlier: 'Being an immoralist one has to take steps against corrupting innocents - I mean, asses and old maids of both sexes whom life offers nothing but their innocence.'