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Gospels of Anarchy, and Other Contemporary Studies

Gospels of Anarchy, and Other Contemporary Studies

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PhilosophyGeneral Political ScienceGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 1150554703
ISBN13: 9781150554704
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.37 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...of an idle dilettanteism. Believe in oneself! Why is it not enough that we believe in the objects of our love and our hate, in the aims of our impulses and actions? And does life depend upon the fiat of individual self-realisation? What is this childish trifling about saying ' Yes' to life, about loving the inevitable? Man, the inevitable can do without your approval! And Life has you safe in its clutches, Life, Death--and the madness you invoked, also. VIII Why have we spent so much time--which would have sufficed to collect a volume of sane and useful sayings out of Nietzsche's work--upon the analysis of his unhappy, morbid and sterile personality? Partly because, in the universal and necessary reconsideration of all our previous habits of belief and standards of conduct, the imitation of Nietzsche's attitude constitutes a real, though a momentary, danger to some of us. But partly, also, because the attitude of Nietzsche suggests in its main characteristics, and helps us to construct even in some of its details, an attitude towards the universe of an exactly contrary nature. In analysing the sham Yes which this passionate No-Sayer flung in the face of the life he had stripped of all living quality, we may have been led to conceive a more genuine Yes addressed to a more real life. And thus we may have come to reverse the prayer of Nietzsche, and to exclaim, in humility and confidence: Give us, ye Gods, Sanity: so that we may believe in all which is not merely our own self. PROFESSOR JAMES AND THE WILL TO BELIEVE PROFESSOR JAMES AND THE WILL TO BELIEVE I THE need to believe. That is the title which, in my mind, I find I give to these subtle, brilliant, delicate, violent, and altogether delightful and intolerable essays of...

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