{"id":815,"date":"2015-04-23T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=815"},"modified":"2015-04-22T08:54:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T12:54:05","slug":"the-will-to-power-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=815","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 \/>II: Criticism of Morality<\/p>\n<p><b>&#0167;283<\/b> &#0160; The hatred directed against the privileged in body and spirit: the revolt of the ugly and bungled souls against the beautiful, the proud and the cheerful.  The weapons used: contempt of beauty, of pride, of happiness: \u201cThere is no such thing as merit\u201d, \u201cThe danger is enormous: it is right that one should tremble and feel ill at ease\u201d, Naturalness is evil; it is right to oppose all that is natural, even \u201creason\u201d (all that is anti-natural is elevated to the highest place).<\/p>\n<p>It is again the priests who exploit this condition and who win the \u201cpeople\u201d over to themselves.  \u201cThe sinner\u201d over whom there is more joy in heaven than over \u201cthe just person\u201d.  This is the struggle against \u201cpaganism\u201d (the pang of conscience, a measure for disturbing the harmony of the soul).  The hatred of the mediocre for the exceptions and of the herd for its independent members.  (Custom actually regarded as \u201cmorality\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>The revulsion of feeling against \u201cegotism\u201d: that only is worth anything which is done \u201cfor another\u201d.  \u201cWe are all equal\u201d versus the love of dominion, against \u201cdominion\u201d in general; against privilege; against sectarians, free-spirits and sceptics; against philosophy (a force opposing mechanical and automatic instincts); in philosophers themselves \u201cthe categorical imperative\u201d, the essential nature of morality, \u201cgeneral and universal\u201d.   <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed HithertoII: Criticism of Morality &#0167;283 &#0160; The hatred directed against the privileged in body and spirit: the revolt of the ugly and bungled souls against the beautiful, the proud &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=815\">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\/815"}],"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=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}