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Beyond Good and Evil prints public aphorisms that treat women as a type unfit for equal friendship and truth

The same 1886 BGE prints aphorisms that reduce women to a type — not yet capable of friendship, a danger to truth. In the causal graph this event weakens Protection of Minority Rights, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — a worsening welfare path.

Sources: [1][2]

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The same 1886 BGE prints aphorisms that reduce women to a type — not yet capable of friendship, a danger to truth.

Context

He wrote these sentences. Split his anti-antisemitic letters as a different minority path.

Friedrich Nietzsche’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.

Why it matters

Aphorisms are not Lou Salomé’s later memoirs.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactBeyond Good and Evil prints public aphorisms that treat women as a type unfit for equal friendship and truth
    2. weakensDriverProtection of Minority Rights
    3. strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
    Worsening path

    impact weight 0.5 · Effect from 10 August 1886 · verified

    • Having a say in government

      via Protection of Minority Rights

      Worse

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.23 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      Two readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).

      20212023

      Above normal = better

    • Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score

      via Protection of Minority Rights

      Worse

      Weakens · Relationship strength 0.23 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.

      Normal is zero · any amount = worse

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Nietzsche’s Moral and Political PhilosophyStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Beyond Good and Evil — public-domain EnglishProject Gutenberg · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Gutenberg BGE and Stanford independently include the woman-aphorisms as his published text.

Established: 1886 public woman-aphorisms. Not established: that they uniquely caused a franchise delay.

Contribution type is direct.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorFriedrich Nietzsche
  2. contributed toFactBeyond Good and Evil prints public aphorisms that treat women as a type unfit for equal friendship and truth
  3. weakensDriverProtection of Minority Rights
  4. strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). Beyond Good and Evil prints public aphorisms that treat women as a type unfit for equal friendship and truth. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/nie-bge-women-1886

https://factrail.ai/facts/nie-bge-women-1886

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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