Ultra-moral#
Summary#
The ultra-moral designates a potential future period of human self-understanding that would surpass the moral era’s fixation on intention as the sole measure of an action’s worth. Nietzsche argues that what is decisive in an action lies precisely in what is not intentional, and that visible intentionality is merely a surface requiring deeper interpretation. This surmounting of morality represents the secret labor reserved for the most refined and wicked consciences of the present age.