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The Origin of Moral Feelings

1877 · by Paul Rée

Derives moral feelings from habit and utility and explains altruism in evolutionary terms after Darwin; Nietzsche names it in the preface of the Genealogy of Morals as the impulse for his own inquiry, which rejects its conclusions.

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