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Often appears with: temperance and self-mastery · justice as a virtue · the passions and the emotions · self-love · self-command and self-obedience · rejection of universal goodness · learning self-love · learning as patience · healthy vs sick self-love · education and the training of the young · critique of moral categories · children and early moral training
Usually: speech or oration (2) · censure (2) · exhortation (2) · coming of age (1)
“One must learn to love oneself—thus do I teach—with a wholesome and healthy love: that one may endure to be with oneself, and not go roving about.” Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None · precept
Zarathustra proclaims the “spirit of gravity” as heavy inherited values and “good and evil,” argues for learning self-love, and rejects universal goodness, whitewashed souls, and passive waiting.
he who will never defend himself, he who swalloweth down poisonous spittle and bad looks, the all-too-patient one, the all-endurer, the all-satisfied one: for that is the mode of slaves. Whether they be servile before Gods and divine spurnings, or before men and stupid human opinions: at ALL kinds of slaves doth it spit, this blessed selfishness! Bad: thus doth it call all that is spirit-broken, and sordidly-servil…
Zarathustra insists that to become light and fly one must love oneself with a healthy self-love, and he attacks early moral training that prevents children from loving themselves.
For to its possessor is all possession well concealed, and of all treasure-pits one’s own is last excavated—so causeth the spirit of gravity. Almost in the cradle are we apportioned with heavy words and worths: “good” and “evil”—so calleth itself this dowry. For the sake of it we are forgiven for living. And therefore suffereth one little children to come unto one, to forbid them betimes to love themselves—so cause…