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Nietzsche

Nietzsche
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 Dinesh
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In the year 1883 Friedrich Nietzsche, the most important philosopher since Immanuel Kant, announced that “God is Dead.” Five years later he predicted that the time would come when history would be divided between “Before and After Nietzsche.” He was confident that his attack would be fatal to those creeds, and that the twentieth century would see their disappearance.

His prediction may be verified. Half of Christendom has officially rejected Christianity, and in the other half the death of God is the chief topic of theologians. Half of Christondom has repudiated democracy as a window dressing for the rule of money over simplicity, and in the Latin part of the other half democracy is being gradually replaced by authoritarian rule (p.s author died in 1981 AD) Nearly all of Europe and America has put aside the ethics of Christ as incompatible with military vigor and designs, and have adopted Nietzsche’s “master morality” of “the will to power.” Two world wars have seriously wounded Christianity; a third may end it as a force in history. Has the Age of Nietzsche begun? ~ Page 52

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Nietzsche’s oldest and most fundamental source of his doctrine of the Eternal Return was his conviction that our emotions are not simply excited by the stimuli and cultural symbols at hand in our environment; they are transhistorical and animal in us and the mot archaic emotions can return in the socialized modern man. It was the conviction that governed his first book : the conviction that he, and not the academic literary critics, understood the Greek tragedies because the passions of Aeschypus and Sophocles pounded in his heart. In the later nineteenth century of scientific, industrial, and mercantile Europe, he saw men and women in whom the instinct and passions of hunters and gatherers, or warriors, of sixth century B.C.E., sages, and of Dark Ages saint return.

Nietzsche thinks that these ancient passions return in their full force when representations a people now make of themselves no longer elicit them. Sigmund Freud found that when anxieties and cravings that date from some trauma or from infancy are brought to the light of consciousness, fixed in conscious representations, they lose their force to drive the individual. When those conscious representations fade out, or are lost in another traumatic event, then the old anxieties and cravings return. In Nietzsche’s conception, when a people represents itself as wholly civilized, when its economy, political system, and ethical present only occasions for civilized behavior, here and there the old instincts of hunters and of warriors return; when it represents its return as that of consumers in the global mercantilist economy that, here and there, the instincts of sages and saints return.. more profoundly , the instincts and emotions of our animality return. Behind instincts and emotions that are generated by culture Nietzsche found the wolf, cave bear, camel in us; Zarathustra’s overman has the instincts of lion, serpent, and dove crowded in his soul. - page 147

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