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Transvaluation of values

Transvaluation of values
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concept of Niezschean philosophy

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  1. His profound instinct of self-preservation stands against truth ever coming into honour in any way, or even getting stated. Wherever the influence of theologians is felt there is a transvaluation of values, and the concepts "true" and "false" are forced to change places: whatever is most damaging to life is there called "true," and whatever exalts it, intensifies it, approves it, justifies it and makes it triumphant…

    Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Antichrist

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  2. I hat, too, is "pessimism.".. A teaching which puts an end to such a condition by the fact that it _commands_ something: a transvaluation of values by means of which the accumulated forces are given a channel, a direction, so that they explode into deeds and flashes of lightning-does not in the least require to be a hedonistic teaching: in so far as it _releases strength_ which was compressed to an agonising degree…

    Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power

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  3. In any case, so far as judgment takes place (instead of the reminiscence of a prior good operating as a direct stimulus to present action) all valuation is in some degree a revaluation. Nietzsche would probably not have made so much of a sensation, but he would have been within the limits of wisdom, if he had confined himself to the assertion that all judgment, in the degree in which it is critically intelligent, is…

    John Dewey, Essays in Experimental Logic

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Place in the tradition

Part of Nihilism.

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