Beyond Good and Evil · Chapter
Chapter 110 explained
A brief aphorism noting that defenders of a criminal rarely possess the artistic skill to frame the terrible beauty of the act in a way that benefits the perpetrator.
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A brief aphorism noting that defenders of a criminal rarely possess the artistic skill to frame the terrible beauty of the act in a way that benefits the perpetrator.
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“The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.”
A criminal's defenders usually lack the artistry to recast the awful yet magnificent nature of the crime in a light that serves the criminal.
Highlights the aesthetic dimension of judgment and the power of artistic reinterpretation in moral and legal contexts.
