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lesewut · 1 year

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‘It can be considered as a sad disaster, that no philosophy, no religion, no ideology, lead to a peaceful and healthy world.’

"Nietzsche and his Christian Worldview“ is presented by Karl Jaspers in 1938 (a lecture in the context of Wissenschaftlicher Predigerverein Hannover), who was pen pal of Hannah Arendt and mental Student of Max Weber. The other book is a collection of selected writings of Nietzsche, also published in 1938. Both not of antiquarian value, but can be used as credentials to underdraw the failure of all promises of salvation.

'In truth,there was only one Christian and he died on the cross.'

Every try to draw near to Nietzsche‘s philosophy and opinion, will stay insufficient. For understanding Nietzsche it is obligatory to understand his contradiction, to understand the discrepancy as a pretence-function. The 'completeness' of his philosophical claim, can just be expressed in this way of antinomy: Between drastic apodictic claims and endless dialectic of all abolishing possibilities.

Nietzsche also saws his current epoch in a crisis. The sinking of culture The replacement of education by merely knowing about education The permanent search for ways to compensate the mental loss of substance („seelischer Substanzverlust“) Universal acting and Living in the 'as if' (das Leben im „als ob“) The anaestesia of boredom by rush and sensation […] and in the noise of mind-simulation, everything is talking, all is ignored and missed by non-existent listeners, all is 'over discussed' to the point of losing importance and significance. And in the dullness of breathless acquisition, in the clamour of the masses, which are feeding the machinery that will in the end consume them, nobody is noticing the big event:

God is dead.

This phrase was too often miscontrusted as godlessness, it has to be seen more as an ontological perception of human existence in so called modern world.

Why is God dead? Should be the next question and Nietzsche would answer:

Because of Christianity.

In Nietzsche’s world-view, the interaction of Christian values and methods to 'overcome' the lies and hypocrisy are not to underestimate.

As Nietzsche himself had both parents descend from pastor families, he explains the distance from Christian Religion, especially the inner scepticism of German protestants, by the fact that they have lost their believe as they noticed the errors of what was preached and what was put into practrice.

But Nietzsche’s hostility is not holistically integrated into his basic experience, as he is using Christian value system for his theory of world-history:

The Universality, Unity, Coherence, Will for Truth (as a Symbol between Logos and Alogon, here the antinomy again) and the Christian Propulsion as the energy for break with all the falseness, because the deeply relfected thinker reveals this fanatism of rigid adherence on a world-immance of the One, that does not exist.

The reflected person, educates himself and is willingly disturbing the sure thought being.

With his restless thoughts, that will not give him comfort in determination, because the human will percieve a higher essence of being in „Nicht-Festgestelltheit“ (~ Not-Determinedness)

The Human will be alone, but he will reach new highs without a goddess, all beauty and all knowledge will be brought back to him, to us (auf-uns-Selbst-zurückrufen), he himself will be brought back into himself.

Out of the deepness of historicity of humanity, there will be fullfilled freedoms, because he will be the present, brought back into himself (sich-Selbst-geschenkt-werden).

Not only for Nietzsche is the distortion of Christianity, the reverse of what was true for Jesus.

It is generally underrated how Nietzsche is drawing an Image of Jesus, to exhibit defects of what the Christian Religion did with the ethical rules of behaviour Jesus exemplified.

„Im Grunde hab es nur einen Christen und der starb am Kreuz.“

Whereas Jesus embodied the ressentiment (of all Humiliated and Insulted, the resentement of the Powerless, the decandence of those, who will ruin themselves „Sich-Selbst-zu-Grunde-richten“),

the later Interpretation reduced the Symbol of a new humanistic ethic into faith.

Faith turned into doctrine and the symbol 'anouncement of the infinite bliss' was decreased into „lauter Sachen und Personen, statt der Symbole, lauter Riten und Dogmen, statt einer Praxis des Lebens.“

With Paulus impact Jesus was turned to the figure of the saviour, in the foreground the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. And because the disciples of Jesus searched for an Explanation, because earthly Born can not bear the bottomless and the inexplicable, they searched for ways for atoning the crime, a method for expiating the sin, so they asked how could have this [injustice] happen?

It has to happen this way, God gave his son as a sacrifice for our sins.

„Nichts ist unchristlicher als die kirchlichen Kruditäten von der Gott als Person, von einem Reich Gottes, welcher kommt von einem Himmelsreich, jenseits, von einem ‚Sohn Gottes‘, der zweiten Person der Trinität … Das ist alles im welthistorischen Zynismus die Verhöhnung des Symbols.“

Nietzsche situates the destructive lie in Christianity, that made the Ancient Greek wisdom in vain, destroyed the Imperium Romanum, annihilated the progess of Islam scholarship and wisdom, the progress and humanistic ideas of the Renaissance and is till today blurring the striving of the individual to forefeel the truth, because the Christian demand on historical Totalwissen is paralyzing by tracing the Golden Age back to a long past time (ironically Nietzsche also, as he is proclaiming the historical highlight of humanity in pre-Socratic Greece, the up-lifting era of tragedy).

Nietzsche wants to establish a new philosophy, a countermovement, the nihilism for washing the humanity pure from all the attached and purported sins and fictions. Following the esperance to give the human an higher self by finding himself, without searching for himself, by drawing near to truth, without fixing and degenerating it. And Nietzsche is detecting, like other Übergangsmenschen, that science will also be instrumentalised and its content filled like previous dogmatic doctrines.

Now a personal train of thoughts: It gives me a feeling of unease, when ´Modern world´ is praised and labelled with concepts, which lack more and more authorization in the practice.

When neo-liberal economy, military re-armament, increased importance of biopolitics, parliamentary reduction of jurisdiction, hypersensitization of (mental) diseases […] are considered as absolutely necessary for maintenance of democratic governmental system, a more or less reflecting human-being is seeking for a debate culture, a professional (and thereofore unbiased) exchange of interdisciplinary methods of analysis.

It will remain difficult to establish a criticial discourse, even till today propagandistic instruments are used for formation of opinion, not just in countries like China, Russia or Turkey, but also in countries we would consider as intented to ensure freedom of speech, as economic interests are dictating the course and purposely replacing fundamental ethical principles (war and aggression are always to condemn, every armed conflict is a sign of humaneness failure !!! )

The world of our humanity is still not able to find sustainable solutions for the majour issues (Global Climate Crisis; rising gap between rich and poor; imprudent consumerism; Extensive Surveillance & Big Data, just to name a few...) of our future.

It can be considered as a sad disaster, that no philosophy, no religion, no ideology, lead to a peaceful and healthy world.

It could be so easy, if basic maxims, would have born in fruit. If the `Golden Rule´, which can be traced back till Ancient Egypt and India, would have been truely assimilated into soul and heart.

`Thou shalt not kill‘, but still today, mothers lose their children and women become willows.

O- we have wonderful definitions of peace and harmony, we were endowed by evolution with this present called reason, to order and tame the forces of nature, to make our lives more and more comfortable.

Equal we are born, but the place of birth is separating us, no equal chances and opportunities to actively improve our way of living, pushing the envelope with sincere effort to the limit of our mental and physical flexibility.

Indisputable are also the systematical limitations, in the modern world, science will be exploited for politcal and economic concerns. In a world, where 'God is Dead' , the seeking human can not find rest bottomless and abysmal, as long as he is not able to find home within himself.

It seems that science will constantly shoulder more and more responsibility and this development could improve prudent valuation and therefore a healthy basis for all live on earth.

But as science is the daughter of Philosophy, it must be reviewed and verified by Ethics Council (my Suggestion: Compiled by financial-independent international supervisory authorities of all areas of life and different vocational sectors, crossing all cultural and age-group section). It will stay a dream, to imagine a world without wars and greed, but if every single one could end the war within himself, I think there would be no war outside the own body and mind.

'Error is something rare in individuals, but it is the rule in groups, parties, peoples, times.'

[Trying to fix a conception of how an individual can improve himself. No Completeness, very messy, here and there some teardrop disturbing the scripture !!! :') Never meet my own requirements :( ]

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alchemisoul · 2 years

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"Talent that is not honed against the sharp blade of some adversity is almost inevitably bland, if existent at all. Talent is born out of friction, fear, flight. We fight to get away from something--an illness; abuse; abandonment. A perfectly happy person--if one exists--sees no reason to dream or run.

Vivien [Leigh] for instance, awoke every day seeking escape from so many things, and she poured everything into the arrangement of flowers; the making of lunch; the performance of a part; the setting of things on a table.

She was on the run, baby. All the time. And the talent shone like the jewels she cleaned with vinegar and hot water. Vinegar and hot water! There's a title."

- Tennessee Williams on Vivien Leigh

#Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel #hegel #german philosophy #german philosopher #philosophy #philosopher #tennesee williams #playwright #writer #screenwriting #screenplay #vivien leigh #old hollywood #broadway #artist #quote

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tmarshconnors · 1 year

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“Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves. They always think of their own case as soon as ever any remark is made, and their whole attention is engrossed and absorbed by the merest chance reference to anything which affects them personally, be it never so remote."

Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher.

Born: 22 February 1788, Gdańsk, Poland.

Died: 21 September 1860, Free City of Frankfurt.

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proverbiumseniorum · 2 years

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"What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father."---Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, German philosopher, 1844-1900

“What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.”—Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, German philosopher, 1844-1900

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#Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche #German philosopher #What was silent in the father

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tranzsunnyd · 1 year

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ao3 being down always sucks bc well. its ao3 but the one bright side is seeing all of my mutuals have a collective synchronised breakdown on every platform possible

#ao3 #ao3 down #maybe that german philosopher dude was right something something all parts of humanity are cool #.txt

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philosophors · 6 months

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“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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his-heart-hymns · 5 months

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You do not yet suffer enough to suit me.

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mammutblog · 1 year

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do you guys wanna know how i ended up here. it was in current worlds finest run when bruce was casually like "that's a shang dynasty bronze sword" in a dick measuring contest with that other guy so that he can look cool in front of clark and i was like. did he just casually date an early china bronze object and then i had no choice but to unzip my pants

#emotionally #i dont actually want to fuck him #hes like #just so sad #like hes like if a french philosopher were sexy kind of sad you know #yeah did pontificating about phenomenology in german cure your depression?#i didnt think so #sorry its finals week and im going insane

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henk-heijmans · 6 months

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The philosopher, ca. 1913 - by August Sander (1876 – 1964), German

#August Sander #German #philosopher

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beljar · 2 years

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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, 1930

#sigmund freud #freedom #psychoanalysis #german philosopher #books and libraries #quotes #dark acadamia aesthetic #world literature #existentialism

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lesewut · 1 year

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"Greed is cruelty against human-beings in need, luxuria aswell."

"Die Himmelrühmen des Ewigen Ehre, der Schall pflanzt seinen Namen fort."

"Real glory is fame in front of God, not in front of sons of men."

"The real calmness of mind is virtue and modesty."

Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, published and printed 1790 by Thomas von Trattern. This edition is a collection of selected letters, several wormholes are decorating this book.

Presenting Christian Fürchtegott Gellert - Moral philosopher, poet of Enlightment, narrator of fables and valued for his clear and prosaic style. The first time I read from him in praisings of my beloved Wieland & Lessing and later read of the correspondence with C. K. Schlegel. In the Transition Epoch of so many wonderful genre of literature, Gellert is one of the most read writers.

The printing procedure is also very interesting and highlighting the problems of censorship in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation at that time. Throughout human history books were be banned, because of (political) content.

In Habsburg Royal Hungary Thomas von Trattern could not only elude censorship, but also print cost-effective, so that even famous poets and writers (Goethe, Schiller, Herder, Lessing, Wieland, Gellert ...) could be re-printed and were therefore more accessable to the public.

The current legal situation in Austria allowed a freer form of expression, but Thomas von Trattern saw himself walled in hostility by German printing offices, especially by Grant Printers of Leipzig (cf. Philipp Erasmus Reich).

It is a huge luck that so many great books survived censorship and withstand over different political systems. It is hard enough, that so many works are lost or just passed on in extract... After prayers, books are my favourite medium of conversation.

It gives me the strenght to survive the life, words are soothing balm, I lacked consulation throughout my childhood. I am so thankfull, that I can read and escape from physical circumstances and transcend into eternal fields.

"Der, den der Tod nicht weiser macht, hat nie ihm Ernst an ihn gedacht."

#Antiquarian book #book #German philosopher #philosophy of enlightment #bookworm #wormholes #Christian Fürchtegott Gellert #1790 #Thomas von Trattnern #Johann Thomas Edlen von Trattnern #history of book printing #censorship of books #freedom of expression #freedom #God_is_Love

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theidealistphilosophy · 9 months

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That is why I go into solitude— so as not to drink out of everybody’s cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think as I really think; after a time it always seems as though they want to banish me from myself and rob me of my soul— and I grow angry with everybody and fear everybody.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality.

#philosophy tumblr #philoblr #german philology #philosopher #friedrich nietzsche #meta ethics #daybreak #morality #existentialism #solitude #dark academia #life quotes

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yellow-yarrow · 6 months

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reading fayde (again). just found this line of Egg head referencing Never ending story by Limahl

Egg Head - "Rhymes that keep their secrets will unfold behind the clouds!"

does anyone know what this might reference? (if its a reference at all) he says this after they "tame" the sound recorded from the swallow for the music :

Egg Head - "THIS IS BEAUTY, THIS IS LIFE!"

I thought it could be a lyrics but I didn't find anything, except a sermon from G. Campbell Morgan which could be a coincidence but also the dolorian church is kinda based on christianity so maybe...?

I behold Him [Christ], and I say already to myself, Yea, verily, this is glory, this is beauty, this is life, this is perfection! But I am not that, I cannot be that. Therefore am I filled with fear, and the fear is generated by the apprehension of the glory and the beauty of Christ.

it's between Scooter references:

You - "THIS ONE IS FOR THE ANODIC GENERATION!" Egg Head - "INTRODUCING THE ULTIMATE SOUND!" Egg Head - "DOLORIAN CHURCH -- THE PLACE TO BE!" Egg's losing himself in the sound. "Pump it, pump it!"

listening to the pale is described like this:

Andre - "Guys, what's going on?" There's alarm in the man's voice, as he steps back to scan the surroundings

Egg Head - "HOSIANNAH! MOTHER OF MEGA!" You hear Egg Head yell -- then something else, but his voice is growing faint... Empathy - In his mind, a tidal wave approaching from afar, swallowing entire coastlines on its way... salvation. Electrochemistry - He's peaking -- the worst high he's ever been on.

Egg Head - "Yeah! It was awesome, and scary. Very hard core!"

#i have drawn more unhinged connections before so im throwing this out there #disco elysium #listen there are references there you wouldnt believe. from britney spears songs to german children's books to philosophers #it could be possible. but if its a song lyrics i would love to know so i can put it in my de playlist #this started with me wanting to draw liz and then wanting to make a post about her with quotes so i'll better understand her and #now im thinking about the pale and salvation and less than less than nothing and absolute negation

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