![]() ![]() Pity is opposed to the tonic passions which enhance the energy of the feeling of life: its action is depressing. Plainly, too, he had come heavily under the influence of Darwinism:Ĭhristianity is called the religion of pity. ![]() (Section 2, page 4)Īlthough I think that Nietzsche would have found Nazism and the Nazis repulsive and contemptible, it’s not difficult to see why they were attracted to at least some of what he said. What is more harmful than any vice? - Practical sympathy with all the botched and the weak - Christianity. And they ought even to be helped to perish. The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our humanity. Not contentment, but more power not peace at any price, but war not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtù, free from all moralic acid). What is happiness? - The feeling that power is increasing - that resistance has been overcome. What is bad? - All that proceeds from weakness. What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. Whatever meanings that exist in life are put there by us, by human beings, by “value-creators.” (vii) In earlier books Nietzsche had made that most profound announcement: “God is dead.” In other words, there are no absolute, unconditional, or objective values in the world. ![]()
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