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Der Antichrist
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Here is Friedrich Nietzsche's great masterpiece The Anti-Christ, wherein Nietzsche attacks Christianity as a blight on humanity. This classic is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand Nietzsche and his place within the history of philosophy ..."--Description from www.amazon.com
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Zur Genealogie der Moral
Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. Nietzsche rewrites the former as a history of cruelty, exposing the central values of the Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality, justice - as the product of a brutal process of conditioning designed to domesticate the animal vitality of earlier cultures. The result is a book which raises profoundly disquieting issues about the violence of both ethics and interpretation. Nietzsche questions moral certainties by showing that religion and science have no claim to absolute truth, before turning on his own arguments in order to call their very presuppositions into question. The Genealogy is the most sustained of Nietzsche's later works and offers one of the fullest expressions of his characteristic concerns. This edition places his ideas within the cultural context of his own time and stresses the relevance of his work for a contemporary audience.
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“Man must wring himself free from them, otherwise he cannot be a good man....”
“The -ideal slave (the " good man ").-He who cannot regard himself as a " purpose," and who cannot give himself any aim whatsoever, in- stinctively honours the morality of unseljishness.”
“A critidsm of the good man.-Honesty, dignity, dutifulness, justice, humanity, loyalty, uprightness, clean conscience-is it really supposed that, by means of these fine-sounding words, the qualities they stand for are approved and affirmed for their own sake?”
“And thus he ultimately arrives at the conclusion, which to him is quite logical, that Nature is evil, that man is c0rrupted, and that being good is an act of grace (that is to say, it is impossible to man when he stands alone).”
“The " good man " sees himself surrounded by evil, and, thanks to the continual onslaughts of the latter, his eye grows more keen, and in the end discovers traces of evil in every one of his acts.”
“First of all we should know what " good and evil" mean.”
“Sceptic; so long as you cannot believe in my bad reasons,-that is to say, in my God, in a disciplinary Beyond, in free will, etc.,- you put obstacles in the way of my virtue. . . .”
“As a matter of fact, man does not desire " happiness." Pleasure is a sensation of power : if the passions are excluded, those states of the mind are also excluded which afford the greatest sensation of power and therefore of pleasure.”
“In short: the coming of the "Kz'ngdom of God" has been placed in the future, and has been given an earthly, a human meaning-but on the whole the faith in the old ideal is still maintained. . . . 340.”
“This method of valuing thus believes itself to be "idealistic"; it never doubts that in its concept of the " good man," it has found the highest de- sideratum.”
“Decadence reveals itself in this con- cern about "happiness "(i.e. about the "salvation of the soul '' ; -i.e. to feel that one's condition -is a danger).”
“With Plato we are as the temporary inhabitants of an in- telligible world of goodness, still in possession of a bequest from former times: divine dialectics taking its root in goodness leads to everything good (it follows, therefore, that it must lead ""backwards '').”
“Genuine love of man- kind exacts sacrifice for the good of the species -it is hard, full of self-control, because it needs human sacrifices.”
“We are no Pascals, we are not particularly in- terested in the " Salvation of the soul," in our own happiness, and in our own virtue.-We have neither enough time nor enough curiosity to be so con 7 cerned with ourselves.”
“Suffering, struggle, work, and death are raised as objections against life, they make life questionable, unnatural -something that must cease, and for which one not only requires but also has-remedies !”
“Under the empire of Christian prejudice · thz's questz"on was never put at all: the purpose of life seemed to lie in the salvation of the individual soul ; the question whether humanity might last for a long or a short time was not considered.”
“But the desire for disbelz'ef has also been confounded with the "will to truth" (a need of ridding one's self of a belief for a hundred reasons : in order to carry one's point against certain "believers").”