04 May 2006

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals

This precisely is the long story of how responsibility originated. The task of breeding an animal with the right to make promises evidently embraces and presupposes as a preparatory task that one first makes men to a certain degree necessary, uniform, like among like, regular, and consequently calculable.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals, Second Essay

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