From: Albertus Magnus Area: Base of Set To: All 13 Nov 94 16:53:28 Subject: FWN on 'freedom' UpdReq "Freedom which I do not mean." In times like these, abandonment to one's instincts is one calamity more. Our instincts contradict, disturb, destroy each other; I have already defined what is modern as physiological self-contradiction. Rationality in education would require that under iron pressure at least one of these instinct systems be paralyzed to permit another to gain in power, to become strong, to become master. Today the individual still has to be made possible by being pruned: possible here means whole. The reverse is what happens: the claim for independence, for free development, for laisser aller is pressed most hotly by the very people for whom no reins would be too strict. This is true in politics, this is true in art. But that is a symptom of decadence: our modern conception of "freedom" is one more proof of the degeneration of the instincts." --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche from: Twilight of the Idols ... As a thinker, one should speak only of self-education. - Nietzsche 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Albertus Magnus Area: Base of Set To: All 13 Nov 94 16:52:04 Subject: FWN on 'Christianity' UpdReq "Christianity should not be beautified and embellished: it has waged deadly war against this higher type of man; it has placed all the basic instincts of this type under the ban; and out of these instincts it has distilled evil and the Evil One: the strong man as the typically reprehensible man, the "reprobate." Christianity has sided with all that is weak and base, with all failures; it has made an ideal of whatever contradicts the instinct of the strong life to preserve itself; it has corrupted the reason even of those strongest in spirit by teaching men to consider the supreme values of the spirit as something sinful, as something that leads into error -- as temptations. The most pitiful example: the corruption of Pascal, who believed in the corruption of his reason through original sin when it had in fact been corrupted only by his Christianity." --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche from: The Antichrist ... Only when you have all denied me will I return to you. - Nietzsche 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718