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A value judgement is a judgment of the rightness or wrongness (morality or immorality) of something based on a particular set of values. Throughout Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche criticizes various philosophers and concepts that assign (an often negative) value to life according to the subjective values of traditional systems of morality.
Value Judgment Quotes in Twilight of the Idols
The Twilight of the Idols quotes below are all either spoken by Value Judgment or refer to Value Judgment. 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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The Problem of Socrates Quotes
Judgements, value judgements concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms—in themselves such judgements are stupidities. One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of life cannot be estimated.
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In “The Problem of Socrates,” Nietzsche describes how the nihilism and decadence that characterize the modern world came to be. He attributes their hold on modern intellectual culture to Socratic philosophy, which values argumentative discourse and reason, and which taught humanity to use logic and rationality to view themselves and the surrounding world with skepticism and doubt. By examining the world critically and rationally, Socrates held, people could make “value judgments concerning life” and decide what is right versus wrong, good versus evil. Socrates also proposed that reason, virtue, and happiness are interconnected. But Nietzsche disagrees with this perspective. He Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam consequatur. Minima porro perferendis. Sit neque odit. Tenetur qui dignissimos. Qui et ut. Voluptate labore corporis. Hic tempore laborum. Nisi quia ea. Quia solut
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Value Judgment Term Timeline in Twilight of the Idols
The timeline below shows where the term Value Judgment appears in Twilight of the Idols. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
The Problem of Socrates
...be symbols of a fallen ancient Greece. In particular, Nietzsche takes issue with these thinkers’ value judgements . Nietzsche thinks that nothing, where life is concerned, can ever be proven “to be...
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Morality as Anti-Nature
...life, a person would need to have lived beyond life—which no living person who makes value judgments about life has done. An anti-nature view of morality (as espoused by Christianity and philosophers...
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