Intention#
Summary#
Nietzsche traces the historical development of moral evaluation from consequences to intentions, arguing that judging actions by their intended origin represents the distinctively “moral” period of humanity. However, he proposes that humanity now stands at the threshold of an “ultra-moral” period, where the decisive value of an action lies precisely in what is not intentional, and where intention itself is recognized as merely a surface sign requiring interpretation rather than serving as the ultimate criterion of moral worth.