General aspect: the values which have been highest hitherto constitute a specific case of the will to power; morality itself is a specific case of immorality.
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The principal innovations: Instead of "moral values," nothing but naturalistic values. Naturalisation of morality.
In the place of "sociology," a doctrine of the forms of dominion.
In the place of "society," the complex whole of culture, which is my chief interest (whether in its entirety or in parts).
In the place of the "theory of knowledge," a doctrine which laid down the value of the passions (to this a hierarchy of the passions would belong: the passions transfigured; their superior rank, their "spirituality").
In the place of "metaphysics" and religion, the doctrine of Eternal Recurrence (this being regarded as a means to the breeding and selection of men).
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My precursors: Schopenhauer. To what extent I deepened pessimism, and first brought its full meaning within my grasp, by means of its most extreme opposite.