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50 J. Value Inquiry 1 (2016)

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DOI 10.1007/s10790-015-9496-7                                                     CrossMark
Truthfulness as Nietzsche's Highest Virtue
Scott Jenkins'
Published online: 10 June 2015
© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
It is likely that no person has ever sacrificed himself for the truth. (HH 630,
translation modified).
In the closing sections of Ecce Homo, Nietzsche says of Zarathustra, his
doctrine, and his alone, posits truthfulness as the highest virtue [oberste Tugend]:
this means the opposite of the cowardice of the 'idealist' who flees from reality
(EH   Destiny    3).] As Nietzsche emphasizes repeatedly in Ecce Homo                and
I have employed parenthetical citations of Nietzsche's works using the following abbreviations. In those
cases where I depart from the translations in these editions, I either note this explicitly or supply the German
from Colli and Montinari's Kritische Studienausgabe (KSA).
KSA    Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, ed. G. Colli and M. Montinari (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter,, 1980)
BT     The Birth of Tragedy, ed. R. Geuss., trans. R. Speirs (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
HL      The Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life, in Untimely Meditations, ed. D. Breazeale,
trans. R.J. Hollingdale (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
HH     Human, All Too Human, Ed. R. Schacht, trans. R. J. Hollingdale (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1996).
GS     The Gay Science, ed. B. Williams, trans. J. Nauckhoff (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Z      Thus Spoke Zarathustra, trans. W. Kaufmann, in The Portable Nietzsche (New York: Penguin
Books, 1976).
BGE    Beyond Good and Evil, trans. W. Kaufmann (New York: Vintage Books, 1989).
GM     On the Genealogy of Morals, trans. W. Kaufmann (New York: Vintage Books, 1989).
TI     Twilight ofthe Idols, trans. W. Kaufmann, in The Portable Nietzsche (New York: Penguin Books, 1976).
A       The Antichrist, trans. W. Kaufmann, in The Portable Nietzsche (New York: Penguin Books, 1976).
NCW    Nietzsche Contra Wagner, in The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols, and Other Writings,
ed. A. Ridley and J. Norman, trans. J. Norman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
EH     Ecce Homo, trans. W. Kaufmann (New York: Vintage Books, 1989).
H Scott Jenkins
jenkinss@ku.edu
University of Kansas, 1445 Jayhawk Blvd. Wescoe Hall, Room 3090, Lawrence,
KS 66045-7590, USA

I Springer

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