The Genealogy of Morals · Character
Goethe
Poet and thinker praised as a model of healthy, life-affirming culture.
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Also known as Goethe a Faust
First appearance: the genealogy of morals
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Quoted for the phrase 'labyrinth of the breast' to describe the inward turn of the active force.
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With Homer (friendship): Goethe admired Homer's heroic, life-affirming worldview, which Nietzsche contrasts with German pessimism. In The Bad Conscience and the Origin of Altruism: Quoted for the phrase 'labyrinth of…
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- The Bad Conscience and the Origin of Altruism
- Chapter 2: The Ascetic Ideal and Richard Wagner's Transformation
- Separating the Artist from the Work
- The Ascetic Ideal and the Exploitation of Guilt
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