Single Idea 20244

[catalogued under 23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues]

Full Idea

Christianity disallows all moral value to the virtue of philosophers - the triumph of reason over affects - and demands that affects reveal themselves in splendour, as love of God, fear before God, fanatical faith in God, and blindest hope in God.

Clarification

'affects' are emotions

Gist of Idea

Christianity replaces rational philosophical virtues with great passions focused on God

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Dawn (Daybreak) [1881], 058)

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Dawn (Daybreak) (v 5)', ed/tr. Smith, Brittain [Stanford 2011], p.43


A Reaction

Faith, hope and charity are the three great Christian virtues that were added to the four cardinal virtues of the Greeks.