An Animal That May Promise

Nietzsche opens the second essay of Zur Genealogie der Moral (1887) with a question: Ein Thier heranzüchten, das versprechen darf – ist das nicht gerade jene paradoxe Aufgabe selbst … (To breed an animal that is permitted to promise, is that not the paradoxical task itself?) He calls the ability to keep a promise ein eigentliches Gedächtniss des Willens, a true memory of the will.

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