Genealogy of Morals - Essay III
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- Genealogy of Morals - Essay III
- ascetism - a way to say no to life
- ascetic ideals because we do not have aims - we construct one which brings to nothingness
- ascetic ideals
- philosophers
- a means to maximise the feeling of power
- not denial of existence but an affirmation of it
- philosopher will affirm only his existence
- many things to many different people
- poverty, humility, chastity
- the renunciation of earthly pleasures in favour of a simple, abstinent life
- they are not really virtuous
- they are born from the selflessness of philosophers
- these enhance the feeling of power of the philosophers
- life, with all its sensory pleasures and distractions, must be deniedand turned against itself
- an expression of the will to power trying to master life itself
- the ascetic ideal springs from the protective instinct of a degenerating life
- have become so dominant that they have poisoned our entire species and harmed some healthy spirits
- to overcome the ascetic ideals is found in the self - overcoming of the ascetic ideals
- philosophers
- we would rather will nothingness than not will
- struggle and self torture - make ourselves sick
- nausea and a pity of humanity
- will of nothinghness (nihilism)
- nausea and a pity of humanity
- ressentiment
- created by the priest by saying that the suffering of the sick is a right punishment
- the herd
- the sick who feel ressentiment
- they are powerless
- their fundamental drive is the will to power
- ascetism - a way to say no to life
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