“Beyond Good and Evil”

The question of music’s ethical status, especially as compared with literature, had occupied my thoughts many years before I began to work with the help of a Questionnaire. And, in my ignorance of what my Questionnaires (and a few other things) were going to teach me, I had answered that question, as I now see, entirely wrong. ¹ So, beginning to suspect as much, I had presented it to my Answerers. In two, at least, of my Questionnaires, there appears the following query, repeated under a different number but with only a few purely verbal changes. I will quote rather the version in the type-written Questionnaire circulated by myself (in French and English) than that in the longer one translated into German and published in the Zeitschrift für Aesthetik.