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Full Idea
The whole conception of an order of rank among the passions: as if it were the right and normal thing to be guided by reason - with the passions as abnormal, dangerous, semi-animal …and nothing other than desires for pleasure.
Gist of Idea
Passions are ranked, as if they are non-rational and animal pleasure seeking
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §387)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'The Will to Power', ed/tr. Kaufmann,W /Hollingdate,R [Vintage 1968], p.208
A Reaction
This thought of Nietzsche's seems to be very important, because the Enlightenment relegation of passions was inherited from Christianity, and dominated European culture (and Buddhism too, I think).
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