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Friedrich Nietzsche, The European Nihilism

From: Nietzsche, The Will to Power, I. The European Nihilism, II. History of European Nihilism

Em. Macron, Rediscovering the Path to Europe

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51 (March-June 1888)

The state of corruption.-To understand how all forms of corruption belong together, without forgetting the Christian corruption (Pascal as type) as well as the socialist-communist corruption (a consequence of the Christian-from the point of view of the natural sciences, the socialists' conception of the highest society is the lowest in the order of rank); also the "beyond" corruption: as if outside the actual world, that of becoming, there were another world of being.

Here no terms are permissible: here one has to eradicate, annihilate, wage war; everywhere the Christian-nihilistic value standard still has to be pulled up and fought under every mask; e.g., in present-day sociology, in present-day music, in present-day pessimism (all of them forms of the Christian value ideal).

Either the one is true or the other: true here means elevating the type of man.

The priest, the shepherd of souls, as objectionable forms of existence. All of education to date, helpless, untenable, without center of gravity, stained by the contradiction of values.

 

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     Cf.  Nietzsche, Nationalism is Mediocrity (at the margin of Denis de Rougemont). * Morgenthau, The German Character * David Turner, Byzantium : The 'alternative' history of Europe

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