BOOK FIVE Parlous Agency

Refusal to accept the human condition may take the violent form of rebellion, of repudiating what reason presents as an end to be respected, and embarking on a life “beyond good and evil.” Or it may take the abject form of treating the task of respecting every rational creature as such as an impossible one, which it is unfair of our nature to have imposed upon us. The result is a life of pettiness and resentment.

— Alan Donagan, A Theory of Morality