Single Idea 14852

[catalogued under 24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 5. Culture]

Full Idea

Culture absolutely cannot do without passions, vices and acts of malice.

Gist of Idea

Culture cannot do without passions and vices

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human [1878], 477)

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Human, All Too Human', ed/tr. Faber,Marion [Penguin 1994], p.230


A Reaction

I'm not sure how you test the truth of that aphorism, given that humanity is perpetually doomed to live with such things. If those qualities disappeared, I suppose we would drift apart. We are 'dependent' beings, as MacIntyre says.