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across the heaven of OUR life. There are few pains so
grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an
exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated; but
he who has the rare eye for the universal danger of man
himself DETERIORATING, he who like us has
recognized the extraordinary fortuitousness which has
hitherto played its game in respect to the future of
mankind a game in which neither the hand, nor even a
finger of God has participated! he who divines the fate
that is hidden under the idiotic unwariness and blind
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confidence of modern ideas, and still more under the
whole of Christo-European morality-suffers from an
anguish with which no other is to be compared. He sees at
a glance all that could still BE MADE OUT OF MAN
through a favourable accumulation and augmentation of
human powers and arrangements; he knows with all the
knowledge of his conviction how unexhausted man still is
for the greatest possibilities, and how often in the past the
type man has stood in presence of mysterious decisions
and new paths: he knows still better from his painfulest
recollections on what wretched obstacles promising
developments of the highest rank have hitherto usually
gone to pieces, broken down, sunk, and become
contemptible. The UNIVERSAL DEGENERACY OF
MANKIND to the level of the man of the future as
idealized by the socialistic fools and shallow-pates this
degeneracy and dwarfing of man to an absolutely
gregarious animal (or as they call it, to a man of free
society ), this brutalizing of man into a pigmy with equal
rights and claims, is undoubtedly POSSIBLE! He who has
thought out this possibility to its ultimate conclusion
knows ANOTHER loathing unknown to the rest of
mankind and perhaps also a new MISSION!
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CHAPTER VI: WE SCHOLARS
204. At the risk that moralizing may also reveal itself
here as that which it has always been namely, resolutely
MONTRER SES PLAIES, according to Balzac I would
venture to protest against an improper and injurious
alteration of rank, which quite unnoticed, and as if with
the best conscience, threatens nowadays to establish itself
in the relations of science and philosophy. I mean to say
that one must have the right out of one s own
EXPERIENCE experience, as it seems to me, always
implies unfortunate experience? to treat of such an
important question of rank, so as not to speak of colour
like the blind, or AGAINST science like women and
artists ("Ah! this dreadful science! sigh their instinct and
their shame, it always FINDS THINGS OUT! ). The
declaration of independence of the scientific man, his
emancipation from philosophy, is one of the subtler after-
effects of democratic organization and disorganization: the
self- glorification and self-conceitedness of the learned
man is now everywhere in full bloom, and in its best
springtime which does not mean to imply that in this
case self-praise smells sweet. Here also the instinct of the
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populace cries, Freedom from all masters! and after
science has, with the happiest results, resisted theology,
whose hand-maid it had been too long, it now proposes
in its wantonness and indiscretion to lay down laws for
philosophy, and in its turn to play the master what am I
saying! to play the PHILOSOPHER on its own account.
My memory the memory of a scientific man, if you
please! teems with the naivetes of insolence which I have
heard about philosophy and philosophers from young
naturalists and old physicians (not to mention the most
cultured and most conceited of all learned men, the
philologists and schoolmasters, who are both the one and
the other by profession). On one occasion it was the
specialist and the Jack Horner who instinctively stood on
the defensive against all synthetic tasks and capabilities; at
another time it was the industrious worker who had got a
scent of OTIUM and refined luxuriousness in the internal
economy of the philosopher, and felt himself aggrieved
and belittled thereby. On another occasion it was the
colour-blindness of the utilitarian, who sees nothing in
philosophy but a series of REFUTED systems, and an
extravagant expenditure which does nobody any good".
At another time the fear of disguised mysticism and of the
boundary-adjustment of knowledge became conspicuous,
146 of 301
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at another time the disregard of individual philosophers,
which had involuntarily extended to disregard of
philosophy generally. In fine, I found most frequently,
behind the proud disdain of philosophy in young scholars,
the evil after-effect of some particular philosopher, to
whom on the whole obedience had been foresworn,
without, however, the spell of his scornful estimates of
other philosophers having been got rid of the result
being a general ill-will to all philosophy. (Such seems to
me, for instance, the after-effect of Schopenhauer on the
most modern Germany: by his unintelligent rage against
Hegel, he has succeeded in severing the whole of the last
generation of Germans from its connection with German
culture, which culture, all things considered, has been an
elevation and a divining refinement of the HISTORICAL
SENSE, but precisely at this point Schopenhauer himself [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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across the heaven of OUR life. There are few pains so
grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an
exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated; but
he who has the rare eye for the universal danger of man
himself DETERIORATING, he who like us has
recognized the extraordinary fortuitousness which has
hitherto played its game in respect to the future of
mankind a game in which neither the hand, nor even a
finger of God has participated! he who divines the fate
that is hidden under the idiotic unwariness and blind
143 of 301
Beyond Good and Evil
confidence of modern ideas, and still more under the
whole of Christo-European morality-suffers from an
anguish with which no other is to be compared. He sees at
a glance all that could still BE MADE OUT OF MAN
through a favourable accumulation and augmentation of
human powers and arrangements; he knows with all the
knowledge of his conviction how unexhausted man still is
for the greatest possibilities, and how often in the past the
type man has stood in presence of mysterious decisions
and new paths: he knows still better from his painfulest
recollections on what wretched obstacles promising
developments of the highest rank have hitherto usually
gone to pieces, broken down, sunk, and become
contemptible. The UNIVERSAL DEGENERACY OF
MANKIND to the level of the man of the future as
idealized by the socialistic fools and shallow-pates this
degeneracy and dwarfing of man to an absolutely
gregarious animal (or as they call it, to a man of free
society ), this brutalizing of man into a pigmy with equal
rights and claims, is undoubtedly POSSIBLE! He who has
thought out this possibility to its ultimate conclusion
knows ANOTHER loathing unknown to the rest of
mankind and perhaps also a new MISSION!
144 of 301
Beyond Good and Evil
CHAPTER VI: WE SCHOLARS
204. At the risk that moralizing may also reveal itself
here as that which it has always been namely, resolutely
MONTRER SES PLAIES, according to Balzac I would
venture to protest against an improper and injurious
alteration of rank, which quite unnoticed, and as if with
the best conscience, threatens nowadays to establish itself
in the relations of science and philosophy. I mean to say
that one must have the right out of one s own
EXPERIENCE experience, as it seems to me, always
implies unfortunate experience? to treat of such an
important question of rank, so as not to speak of colour
like the blind, or AGAINST science like women and
artists ("Ah! this dreadful science! sigh their instinct and
their shame, it always FINDS THINGS OUT! ). The
declaration of independence of the scientific man, his
emancipation from philosophy, is one of the subtler after-
effects of democratic organization and disorganization: the
self- glorification and self-conceitedness of the learned
man is now everywhere in full bloom, and in its best
springtime which does not mean to imply that in this
case self-praise smells sweet. Here also the instinct of the
145 of 301
Beyond Good and Evil
populace cries, Freedom from all masters! and after
science has, with the happiest results, resisted theology,
whose hand-maid it had been too long, it now proposes
in its wantonness and indiscretion to lay down laws for
philosophy, and in its turn to play the master what am I
saying! to play the PHILOSOPHER on its own account.
My memory the memory of a scientific man, if you
please! teems with the naivetes of insolence which I have
heard about philosophy and philosophers from young
naturalists and old physicians (not to mention the most
cultured and most conceited of all learned men, the
philologists and schoolmasters, who are both the one and
the other by profession). On one occasion it was the
specialist and the Jack Horner who instinctively stood on
the defensive against all synthetic tasks and capabilities; at
another time it was the industrious worker who had got a
scent of OTIUM and refined luxuriousness in the internal
economy of the philosopher, and felt himself aggrieved
and belittled thereby. On another occasion it was the
colour-blindness of the utilitarian, who sees nothing in
philosophy but a series of REFUTED systems, and an
extravagant expenditure which does nobody any good".
At another time the fear of disguised mysticism and of the
boundary-adjustment of knowledge became conspicuous,
146 of 301
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Beyond Good and Evil
at another time the disregard of individual philosophers,
which had involuntarily extended to disregard of
philosophy generally. In fine, I found most frequently,
behind the proud disdain of philosophy in young scholars,
the evil after-effect of some particular philosopher, to
whom on the whole obedience had been foresworn,
without, however, the spell of his scornful estimates of
other philosophers having been got rid of the result
being a general ill-will to all philosophy. (Such seems to
me, for instance, the after-effect of Schopenhauer on the
most modern Germany: by his unintelligent rage against
Hegel, he has succeeded in severing the whole of the last
generation of Germans from its connection with German
culture, which culture, all things considered, has been an
elevation and a divining refinement of the HISTORICAL
SENSE, but precisely at this point Schopenhauer himself [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]