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Full Idea
Some of the aesthetic valuations are more fundamental than the moral ones e.g. the pleasure in what is ordered, surveyable, limited, in repetition. The logical, arithmetical and geometrical good feelings form the ground floor of aesthetic valuations.
Gist of Idea
Aesthetics can be more basic than morality, in our pleasure in certain patterns of experience
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1885-86 [1886], 35[02])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from 1885-86 (v 16)', ed/tr. Del Caro,Adrian [Stanford 2020], p.80
A Reaction
Nietzsche's originality is so striking because his novel suggestions are always plausible. Lots of modern philosophers (especially, I fear, in the continental tradition) throw out startling ideas which then fail on closer inspection.