What Friedrich Nietzsche thinks about government

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German philosopher (1844 to 1900); professor of classical philology at Basel from 1869 to 1879; author of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil and Twilight of the Idols.

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1 dated position, c. 1878, in their own words. Our reading of what Friedrich Nietzsche has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. c. 1878

   Our readingJustice is exchange and reprisal between parties of roughly equal power

   Their wordsJustice is therefore reprisal and exchange upon the basis of an approximate equality of power.

   ↗Human, All Too Human (1878; Alexander Harvey translation, 1908)gutenberg.org All 18 from this book