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19th Century Philosophy: Nietzsche

XXIV. Moral Anti-Realism

In the first section of “The ‘Improvers’ of Mankind” in Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche claims to have been the first to formulate what we now call a moral anti-realist position in which he asserting that there are altogether no moral facts.” It is the task of the philosopher to go “beyond good and evil” according to Nietzsche. Morality and moral judgments are based on the misinterpretation of certain phenomena. They go back to a time when people mistook mere imaginings for truth. However, they are a sign or symptom of the “most valuable realities of cultures and inwardnesses” The only way to profit from morality is to interpret the “sign language that morality is.