{"id":1518,"date":"2015-06-30T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2015-06-29T09:16:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T13:16:16","slug":"the-will-to-power-114","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1518","title":{"rendered":"<i>The Will to Power<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><i>Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed Hitherto<\/i><br \/>V: The Moral Ideal<\/p>\n<p><b>&#0167;347<\/b> &#0160; Morality as a means of seduction.  \u201cNature is good; for a wise and good God is its cause.  Who, therefore, is responsible for the \u2018corruption of mankind\u2019?  Tyrants and seducers and the ruling classes are responsible &#8212; they must be wiped out\u201d: this is Rousseau\u2019s logic (compare with Pascal\u2019s logic which places responsibility with original sin).<\/p>\n<p>Refer also to Luther\u2019s logic, which is similar.  In both cases, a pretext is sought for the introduction of <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">an insatiable lust for revenge as a moral and religious duty<\/span>.  The hatred directed against the ruling classes tries to sanctify itself &#8212; (the \u201csinfulness of Israel\u201d: is the basis of the priest\u2019s powerful position).<\/p>\n<p>Compare this with Paul\u2019s logic, which is similar.  It is always under the cover of God\u2019s business that these reactions appear, under the cover of what is right, or of humanity etc.  In the case of Christ the rejoicings of the people appear as the cause of his execution.  It was an anti-priestly movement from the beginning.  Even in the anti-Semitic movement we find the same trick: the opponent is overcome with moral condemnations and those who attack him pose as retributive Justice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed HithertoV: The Moral Ideal &#0167;347 &#0160; Morality as a means of seduction. \u201cNature is good; for a wise and good God is its cause. Who, therefore, is responsible for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1518\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1520,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions\/1520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}