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The revaluation of all values or transvaluation of all values ( German: ''Umwertung aller Werte'') is a
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philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...
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Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher. He began his career as a classical philology, classical philologist, turning to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, aged 24, Nietzsche bec ...
. ''The Revaluation of All Values'' was also the working title of a series of four books Nietzsche was planning to write, only the first of which—'' The Antichrist''—he ever completed. However, one of his schemas for '' The Will to Power'' used "The Revaluation of All Values" as a subtitle, and it was this scheme that his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche used to assemble his notes into the final book with that title.


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* Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche Value (ethics) {{social-philo-stub