Philology is the study of language in historical texts, both oral and written. Encompassing criticism, history, and linguistics. Nietzsche was first trained as a philologist and was appointed as a chair of classical philology at the University of Basel.
Philology Quotes in Beyond Good and Evil
The Beyond Good and Evil quotes below are all either spoken by Philology or refer to Philology. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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5. Natural History of Morals
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Every morality is, opposed to laisser aller, a bit of tyranny against “nature”; also against “reason”; but this in itself is no objection, as long as we do not have some other morality which permits us to decree that every kind of tyranny and unreason is impermissible. What is essential and inestimable in every morality is that it constitutes a long compulsion: to understand Stoicism or Port-Royal or Puritanism, one should recall the compulsion under which every language so far has achieved strength and freedom—the metrical compulsion of rhyme and rhythm.
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Philology Term Timeline in Beyond Good and Evil
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1. On the Prejudices of Philosophers
As a philologist, Nietzsche questions the basis of the modern scientific claim that nature has and conforms to...
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