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Single Idea 4499
[filed under theme 29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / a. Christianity
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Full Idea
Primitive Christianity is abolition of the state: it forbids oaths, war service, courts of justice, defence of self or community, the distinction between citizens and foreigners, and differences of class.
Gist of Idea
Primitive Christianity is abolition of the state; it is opposed to defence, justice, patriotism and class
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §207)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'The Will to Power', ed/tr. Kaufmann,W /Hollingdate,R [Vintage 1968], p.123
A Reaction
Interesting. This tension is still in Christianity, and permeates international socialism movements. But then Diogenes the Cynic said he was a citizen of the world.
The
78 ideas
from 'The Will to Power (notebooks)'
5652
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True beliefs are those which augment one's power
[Nietzsche, by Scruton]
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4485
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Every belief is a considering-something-true
[Nietzsche]
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4486
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The extreme view is there are only perspectives, no true beliefs, because there is no true world
[Nietzsche]
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4487
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A note for asses: What convinces is not necessarily true - it is merely convincing
[Nietzsche]
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4488
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Those who have abandoned God cling that much more firmly to the faith in morality
[Nietzsche]
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4489
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If faith is lost, people seek other authorities, in order to avoid the risk of willing personal goals
[Nietzsche]
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4491
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In modern society virtue is 'equal rights', but only because everyone is zero, so it is a sum of zeroes
[Nietzsche]
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4493
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Be natural! But how, if one happens to be "unnatural"?
[Nietzsche]
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20357
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Truth was given value by morality, but eventually turned against its own source
[Nietzsche]
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4494
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Not "return to nature", for there has never yet been a natural humanity
[Nietzsche]
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4495
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The high points of culture and civilization do not coincide
[Nietzsche]
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4496
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'Conscience' is invented to value actions by intention and conformity to 'law', rather than consequences
[Nietzsche]
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4497
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The concept of 'God' represents a turning away from life, and a critique of life
[Nietzsche]
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4498
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'Love your enemy' is unnatural, for the natural law says 'love your neighbour and hate your enemy'
[Nietzsche]
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4499
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Primitive Christianity is abolition of the state; it is opposed to defence, justice, patriotism and class
[Nietzsche]
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4500
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It is a sign of degeneration when eudaimonistic values begin to prevail
[Nietzsche]
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20359
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The nature of being, of things, is much easier to understand than is becoming
[Nietzsche]
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4502
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Morality cannot survive when the God who sanctions it is missing
[Nietzsche]
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4501
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Utilitarianism criticises the origins of morality, but still believes in it as much as Christians
[Nietzsche]
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20370
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All evaluation is from some perspective, and aims at survival
[Nietzsche]
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20383
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The wisest man is full of contradictions, and attuned to other people, with occasional harmony
[Nietzsche]
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4504
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Morality used to be for preservation, but now we can only experiment, giving ourselves moral goals
[Nietzsche]
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4505
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How can it be that I should prefer my neighbour to myself, but he should prefer me to himself?
[Nietzsche]
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4506
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There is a conspiracy (a will to power) to make morality dominate other values, like knowledge and art
[Nietzsche]
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4507
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The categorical imperative needs either God behind it, or a metaphysic of the unity of reason
[Nietzsche]
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4508
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The truth is what gives us the minimum of spiritual effort, and avoids the exhaustion of lying
[Nietzsche]
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20372
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The instinct of the herd, the majority, aims for the mean, in the middle
[Nietzsche]
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4509
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Utilitarians prefer consequences because intentions are unknowable - but so are consequences!
[Nietzsche]
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4510
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A path to power: to introduce a new virtue under the name of an old one
[Nietzsche]
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4511
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We would avoid a person who always needed reasons for remaining decent
[Nietzsche]
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4512
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Virtue is pursued from self-interest and prudence, and reduces people to non-entities
[Nietzsche]
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4513
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Virtuous people are inferior because they are not 'persons', but conform to a fixed pattern
[Nietzsche]
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4514
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The basic tendency of the weak has always been to pull down the strong, using morality
[Nietzsche]
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4515
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Modesty, industriousness, benevolence and temperance are the virtues of a good slave
[Nietzsche]
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4516
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Many virtues are merely restraints on the most creative qualities of a human being
[Nietzsche]
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4517
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Egoism is inescapable, and when it grows weak, the power of love also grows weak
[Nietzsche]
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4519
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The ego is only a fiction, and doesn't exist at all
[Nietzsche]
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23938
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Passions are ranked, as if they are non-rational and animal pleasure seeking
[Nietzsche]
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23939
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We fail to see that reason is a network of passions, and every passion contains some reason
[Nietzsche]
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4520
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I don't want to persuade anyone to be a philosopher; they should be rare plants
[Nietzsche]
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4521
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None of the ancients had the courage to deny morality by denying free will
[Nietzsche]
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4523
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What can be 'demonstrated' is of little worth
[Nietzsche]
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20374
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Consciousness is a terminal phenomenon, and causes nothing
[Nietzsche]
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4525
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There are no facts in themselves, only interpretations
[Nietzsche]
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4527
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Perhaps we are not single subjects, but a multiplicity of 'cells', interacting to create thought
[Nietzsche]
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4528
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For me, a priori 'truths' are just provisional assumptions
[Nietzsche]
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4530
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Reason is a mere idiosyncrasy of a certain species of animal
[Nietzsche]
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4533
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Logic and maths refer to fictitious entities which we have created
[Nietzsche]
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4532
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We can have two opposite sensations, like hard and soft, at the same time
[Nietzsche]
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4531
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Our inability to both affirm and deny a single thing is merely an inability, not a 'necessity'
[Nietzsche]
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4534
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'Truth' is the will to be master over the multiplicity of sensations
[Nietzsche]
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4535
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A 'species' is a stable phase of evolution, implying the false notion that evolution has a goal
[Nietzsche]
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4536
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It is a major blunder to think of consciousness as a unity, and hence as an entity, a thing
[Nietzsche]
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4539
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The forms of 'knowledge' about logic which precede experience are actually regulations of belief
[Nietzsche]
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4537
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We can't know whether there is knowledge if we don't know what it is
[Nietzsche]
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4538
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Judgements can't be true and known in isolation; the only surety is in connections and relations
[Nietzsche]
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4541
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Everything simple is merely imaginary
[Nietzsche]
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4542
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Science has taken the meaning out of causation; cause and effect are two equal sides of an equation
[Nietzsche]
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4543
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There are no 'facts-in-themselves', since a sense must be projected into them to make them 'facts'
[Nietzsche]
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4544
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A thing has no properties if it has no effect on other 'things'
[Nietzsche]
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4545
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Could not the objective character of things be merely a difference of degree within the subjective?
[Nietzsche]
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4546
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We realise that properties are sensations of the feeling subject, not part of the thing
[Nietzsche]
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4548
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Only because there is thought is there untruth
[Nietzsche]
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4551
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Great self-examination is to become conscious of oneself not as an individual, but as mankind
[Nietzsche]
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4550
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Pleasure and pain are mere epiphenomena, and achievement requires that one desire both
[Nietzsche]
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20362
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We saw unity in things because our ego seemed unified (but now we doubt the ego!)
[Nietzsche]
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4553
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We derive the popular belief in cause and effect from our belief that our free will causes things
[Nietzsche]
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4552
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There is no such things a pure 'willing' on its own; the aim must always be part of it
[Nietzsche]
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4554
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The concept of the 'will' is just a false simplification by our understanding
[Nietzsche]
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20354
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The ruling drives of our culture all want to be the highest court of our values
[Nietzsche]
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4555
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The great error is to think that happiness derives from virtue, which in turn derives from free will
[Nietzsche]
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4557
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The supposed great lovers of honour (Alexander etc) were actually great despisers of honour
[Nietzsche]
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4558
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We have no more right to 'happiness' than worms
[Nietzsche]
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4559
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When powerless one desires freedom; if power is too weak, one desires equal power ('justice')
[Nietzsche]
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4560
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The Golden Rule prohibits harmful actions, with the premise that actions will be requited
[Nietzsche]
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20136
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There is an extended logic to a great man's life, achieved by a sustained will
[Nietzsche]
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20358
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The highest man can endure and control the greatest combination of powerful drives
[Nietzsche]
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20369
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The highest man directs the values of the highest natures over millenia
[Nietzsche]
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