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The VirtuousAnd others
are proud of their modicum of righteousness,
and for the sake of it do violence to all things:
so that the Earth is
drowned in their unrighteousness.
Ah! how ineptly cometh the word "virtue" out of their mouth!
And when they
say: "I am just,"
it always soundeth like: "I am just-revenged!"
With their
virtues they want to scratch out the eyes of
their enemies;
and they elevate themselves only that they may lower others.
And again there are those who sit in their swamp,
and
speak thus from among the
bullrushes:
"Virtue - that is to sit
quietly in the swamp.
We bite no one, and go out of the way of him who
would bite;
and in all matters we have the opinion that is given us."
And again there are those who adore attitudes,
and think that
virtue is a sort of attitude.
Their knees continually adore,
and their
hands are eulogies of virtue,
but their heart knoweth naught thereof.
And again there are those who regard it as virtue to say:
"Virtue is necessary";
but, after all is
said and done,
they believe only that
policemen are necessary.
Thus
Spake Zarathustra
A madman runs into a marketplace crying incessantly,
"I seek God!
I seek God!"
This action provokes laughter
from the men in the marketplace,
who, do not believe in God.
In
jest, they ask the madman whether God is
lost, hiding, or traveling on a
voyage.
With piercing vision,
the madman confronts his tormentors with this announcement:
"God is
dead.
God remains dead.
And we have killed God."
Belief means not wanting to know
what is true.
Everyday life brings the most instructive
experiences.
Speaking generally,
punishment hardens and
numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of
alienation and
strengthens the power of resistance.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth
come only from the senses.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct
him to hold in higher regard those who think and act alike than those who think
and act differently.
Friedrich Nietzsche
From 1880 until his collapse in January
1889, Friedrich Nietzsche led a wandering existence as a stateless individual,
writing most of his major works during this period.
The initial
symptoms of Friedrich Nietzsche's breakdown, as evidenced in the letters he
sent to his friends in the few days of lucidity remaining to him, bear many
similarities to the ecstatic
writings of religious mystics.
Friedrich Nietzsche's letters
describe his experience as a religious breakthrough and he rejoices, rather
than laments.
A paper published in Acta
Psychiatrica Scandinavica reconsiders the insanity and death of philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche, who is commonly thought to have died of neurosyphilis.
The story of Nietzsche having caught syphilis from prostitutes was
actually concocted after the Second World War by Wilhelm Lange-Eichbaum, an
academic who was one of Nietzsche's most vociferous critics.
Jewish
intellectuals at the time were keen to demolish the reputation of Nietzsche,
who they claimed came up with the concept of the "Superman" to underpin Nazism when in fact
the idea of the Chosen People started in
Judah.
In the late 19th century more than 90 per cent of those with
advanced syphilis rapidly declined and died within five years of diagnosis.
Nietzsche, in contrast, lived for another 11 years.
The authors of the
new study published in published in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica suggest that
Nietzsche died of frontotemporal dementia – a type of dementia that
specifically affects the frontal and temporal lobes. Other studies of medical
records suggest that Friedrich Nietzsche almost certainly died of a
slowly-developing brain tumor.
"Nietzsche was not anti-semitic or a
nationalist, and hated the herd mentality," said Prof Stephen Houlgate, a
Nietzsche scholar at Warwick University. "If this new research gets rid of
another misconception about him, I'm
delighted."
Friedrich Nietzsche was
heavily influenced by
Arthur Schopenhauer.
Arthur Schopenhauer theorized that
humans living in the realm of objects are
living in the realm of desire, and thus are eternally tormented by that desire (this
parallels the dharma of Siddhartha
Gautama). That drive was defined by Arthur Schopenhauer as the inherent drive
within humans beings, and indeed all creatures, to stay
alive and to reproduce.
Arthur Schopenhauer believed that through
art the thinking individual could be
jarred out of their limited,
individual prespective to feel a sense of the universal (metaphysics)
directly.
Nietzsche's hypothesis of the human condition to some
extent left out the
social engineering variable by assuming that the herd is willing to accepts
its role - most of the time they are born into it and quite simply see no other
way. There most definitely is a pecking order mentality in that people will
agree with powerful personalities in the hope of currying those people's favor
and many willing ride the force of these people's personality wave regardless
of moral concerns. That is due
to the fact that these individuals basically owe their
increased material wealth and power to their
lack of empathy which gives them an operational advantage.
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