Morality [Sittlichkeit, ethicalness] is nothing other (therefore no more!) than obedience to mores [Sitten, customs], of whatever kind they may be; mores [Sitten], however, are the traditional ways of behaving and evaluating. In things in which no tradition commands there is no morality [Sittlichkeit].

Anyone who now wishes to make a study of moral matters [moralischen Dingen] opens up for himself an immense field for work. All kinds of individual passions have be be thought through and pursued through different ages, peoples, and great and small individuals.… Have the mores [Sitten] of scholars, of businessmen, artists, or artisans been studied and thought about? There is so much in them to be thought about.

Wherever we encounter a morality [Moral], we also encounter valuations and an order of rank of human impulses and actions. These valuations and orders of rank are always expressions of the needs of a community and herd.… The conditions for the preservation of different communities have been very different; hence there were very different moralities [Moralen, morals]. Considering essential changes in the forms of future herds and communities, states and societies, we can prophesy that there will yet be very divergent moralities [Moralen].

The real problems of morality [Probleme der Moral]… emerge only when we compare many moralities [Moralen].