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Thus spake Zarathustra as the profoundest of German works will hardly appear exaggerated. In the absence of the great work on the
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Transvaluation of all Values, which was so lamentably cut short by the philosopher's incurable illness,
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Zarathustra
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Antichrist subjects the established religion of Europe and the moral code based upon it to a criticism which is always suggestive, often profound, sometimes merely angry and wrong-headed. The attack upon Wagner, in whom Nietzsche had once looked for a master, is closely connected with the furious onslaught upon Christian ideals. Of Wagner the musician Nietzsche has many things both hard and shrewd to say, but the Wagner against whom the main brunt of his polemic is directed is Wagner the psychologist, the pessimist, the preacher of chastity and resignation--in a word, as Nietzsche understands him, the decadent. Christianity, according to Nietzsche, has made decadence into a religion, Schopenhauer has turned it into a philosophy, Wagner into an æsthetic theory. Hence the constant polemic against all three which recurs in all Nietzsche's writings. The
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Genealogy of Morals is devoted to the exposition of a favourite theory of Nietzsche's, that there have always been two antithetical codes of moral values, that of
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and that of
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Masters prize above everything else qualities which bespeak a superabundance of personal force, strength, beauty, wealth, long life;
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set the highest store by qualities which make servitude more endurable, and in the end render revenge upon the
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possible. Starting from this primary assumption, Nietzsche shows wonderful insight in his examination of the growth of concepts like
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