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It is present, too, in Nietzsche’s The Wanderer and His Shadow §61.
Abbreviations of Nietzsche’s works:
A The Anti-Christ, EH Ecce Homo, TI Twilight of the Idols, all in The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols, and Other Writings trans. J. Norman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
BGE Beyond Good and Evil, trans. Judith Norman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
D Daybreak, trans. R. J. Hollingdale (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
GM On the Genealogy of Morality, trans. C. Diethe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
GS The Gay Science, trans. J. Nauckhoff (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Julian Young, Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010) p. 393.
Christopher Janaway Beyond Selflessness: Reading Nietzsche’s Genealogy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
In The Uses of History, Nietzsche endorses the method of “empathy and divination” favored by German historians of his time as the mode of entry to the motives and perspectives of historical actors. But he also emphasizes the demanding nature of the practice of justice since “in it are hidden the highest and rarest virtues” — generosity and self-denial, for instance. Great historiography requires moral excellence. Only the “rarest” of individuals can produce it.
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Young, J. Christopher Janaway, Essays on Schopenhauer and Nietzsche: Values and the Will to Life. Soc (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-024-00967-9
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