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Zoo-ish creatures

Posted by luno in Nietzsche, Weininger (Thursday July 21, 2005 at 1:16 pm)
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Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1889, Kaufmann translation, “The Improvers of Mankind”, sec. 2:
To call the taming of an animal its “improvement” sounds almost like a joke to our ears. Whoever knows what goes on in menageries doubts that the beasts are “improved” there. They are weakened, they are made less harmful, and through the […]

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