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immoralist

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about 1 year ago seanahan said:

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.

about 1 year ago VanishedOne said:

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

about 1 year ago uselessness said:

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

about 1 year ago seanahan said:

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

about 1 year ago VanishedOne said:

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.'

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