Nietzsche and Morality

[Procrustes Stretched]

Think about IT.

Fred:

I reduce a principle to a formula. Every naturalism in morality -- that is, every healthy morality -- is dominated by an instinct of life, some commandment of life is fulfilled by a determinate canon of "shalt" and "shalt not"; some inhibition and hostile element on the path of life is thus removed. Anti-natural morality -- that is, almost every morality which has so far been taught, revered, and preached -- turns, conversely, against the instincts of life: it is condemnation of these instincts, now secret, now outspoken and impudent. When it says, "God looks at the heart," it says No to both the lowest and the highest desires of life, and posits God as the enemy of life. The saint in whom God delights is the ideal eunuch. Life has come to an end where the "kingdom of God" begins.

Camu:

From The Rebel

Christianity believes that it is fighting against nihilism because it gives the world a sense of direction, while it is really nihilist itself in so far as, by imposing an imaginary meaning on life, it prevents the discovery of its real meaning. (p. 69)

A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing, but one who does not believe in what exists. In this sense, all forms of socialism are manifestations, degraded once again, of Christian decadence. (p. 69)

 

[immto]

Page 69 of what?

 

[Si modo]

Page 69 of what?

Don't confuse him. He's on a roll.