{"id":201,"date":"2015-03-14T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=201"},"modified":"2015-03-13T13:39:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T17:39:20","slug":"the-will-to-power-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=201","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 \/>I: Criticism of Religion<\/p>\n<p><b>&#0167;243<\/b> &#0160; Subject for reflection: To what extent does the fatal belief in \u201cDivine Providence\u201d &#8212; the most paralysing belief for both the hand and the understanding that has ever existed, continue to prevail; to what extent have the Christian hypothesis and interpretation of Life continued their lives under the cover of terms like \u201cNature\u201d, \u201cProgress\u201d, \u201cperfectionment\u201d, \u201cDarwinism\u201d or beneath the superstition that there is a certain relation between happiness and virtue, unhappiness and sin?  That absurd belief in the course of things, in \u201cLife\u201d and in the \u201cinstinct of Life\u201d; that foolish resignation which arises from the notion that if only every one did his duty all would go well?  All this sort of thing can only have a meaning if one assumes that there is a direction of things <i>sub specie boni<\/i>.  Even fatalism, our present form of philosophical sensibility, is the result of a long belief in Divine Providence, an unconscious result: as though it were nothing to do with us how everything goes!  (As though we might let things take their own course; the individual being only a <i>modus<\/i> of the absolute reality).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed HithertoI: Criticism of Religion &#0167;243 &#0160; Subject for reflection: To what extent does the fatal belief in \u201cDivine Providence\u201d &#8212; the most paralysing belief for both the hand and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=201\">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\/201"}],"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=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}