{"id":1872,"date":"2015-08-14T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2015-08-13T09:48:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T13:48:53","slug":"the-will-to-power-150","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1872","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: Concerning the Slander of the so-called Evil Qualities<\/p>\n<p><b>&#0167;383<\/b> &#0160; Religious morality &#8212; Passion, great desire; the passions of power, love, revenge and property: the moralists wish to uproot and exterminate all these things and \u201cpurify\u201d the soul by driving them out of it.<\/p>\n<p>The argument is: the passions often lead to disaster &#8212; therefore, they are evil and ought to be condemned.  Man must free himself from them, otherwise he cannot be a good man &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>This is of the same nature as: \u201cIf thine eye offend thee, pluck it out\u201d.  In this particular case when, with that \u201cbucolic simplicity\u201d, the founder of Christianity recommended a certain practice to his disciples, in the event of sexual excitement, the result would not be only the loss of a particular member, but the actual castration of the whole of the man\u2019s character &#8212;  And the same applies to the moral mania, which, instead of insisting upon the control of the passions, sues for their extirpation.  Its conclusion always is: only the emasculated man is a good man.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of making use of and economising the great sources of passion, those torrents of the soul which are often so dangerous, overwhelming and impetuous, morality this most short-sighted and most corrupted of mental attitudes would want to make them dry up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed HithertoV: Concerning the Slander of the so-called Evil Qualities &#0167;383 &#0160; Religious morality &#8212; Passion, great desire; the passions of power, love, revenge and property: the moralists wish to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1872\">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\/1872"}],"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=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1873,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions\/1873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}