Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE RELIGIOUS LIFE. The Double Contest Against Evil.?If an evil afflicts us we can either so deal with it as to remove its cause or else so deal with it that its effect upon our feeling is changed; hence look upon the evil as a benefit of which the uses will perhaps first become evident in some subsequent period. Religion and art (and also the metaphysical philosophy) strive to effect an alteration of the feeling, partly by an alteration of our judgment respecting the experience (for example, with the aid of the dictum "whom God loves, he chastizes") partly by the awakening of a joy in pain, in emotion especially (whence the art of tragedy had its origin). The more one is disposed to interpret away and justify, the less likely he is to look directly at the causes of evil and eliminate them. An instant alleviation and narcotizing of pain, as is usual in the case of tooth ache, is sufficient for him even in the severest suffering. The more the domination of religions and of all narcotic arts declines, the more searchingly do men look to the elimination of evil itself, which is a rather bad thing for the tragic poets?for there is ever less and less material for tragedy, since the domain of unsparing, immutable destiny grows constantly more circumscribed ? and a still worse thing for the priests, for these last have lived heretofore upon the narcoticizing of human ill. Sorrow is Knowledge.?How willingly would not one exchange the false assertions of the homines religiosi that there is a god who commands us to be good, who is the sentinel and witness of every act, every moment, every thought, who loves us, who plans our welfare in every misfortune?how willingly would not one exchange these for truths as healing, beneficial and grateful as those delusions But there are no s...
弗里德里希·尼采(Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900),19世纪德国哲学家,唯意志论和生命哲学主要代表之一,被认为是世界最伟大的思想家之一。
早年在波恩大学和莱比锡大学学习,获博士学位。不到25岁就被聘为瑞士巴塞尔大学的古典语文学副教授,并在一年以后成为正教授。一生著述颇丰,如《悲剧的诞生》、《查拉图斯特拉如是说》、《善恶的彼岸》、《强力意志》等,对20世纪的思想界产生重大影响。1889年初,在意大利的都灵街头摔倒,就此精神错乱,于11年后在德国的魏玛去世。
Religion and government As long as the state, or more precisely, the government knows that it is appointed as trustee on behalf of a group of people in their minority, and for their sake considers the question whether religion is to be preserved or eliminat...
评分我看的是魏育青和其他两位译者译的版本,感觉译笔非常老到,读起来很舒服。像魏先生这么优秀的德语文学译者,为什么译作这么少呢?网上查到的他的著作,大部分是有关德语教学的。可惜啊,一个优秀的翻译家却不得不忙于教学,使得功在千秋的翻译反倒成了业余的打工了。
评分有些方面他很偏激,但有些方面他也很精彩。 对人性里的邪恶虚荣扭曲不公正,这种有深刻的见解啊。 就是真理,他又不能使人为善,高贵也不能自傲,就是这种对普遍信仰的价值的一个攻击,不是通常意义上的赞美.让这些变得平和。对那些不好的道德做讽刺和挖苦。 也没有过高的贬低...
评分最怕漫游者开始写自言自语的诗句 因为我是一个多愁善感的人 不得不为又一次的黄昏降临而落泪 ——what am I? 是谁在拽着我 撕扯我 往下坠 坠落 当我跌到井底 我才发现 是我自己 是名为懊悔的自恋的虚幻的影 “愧疚就像是狗咬石头似的愚蠢” “人们都经历得太多而深思熟虑得太...
评分澄清标题,没有轻视的意思... 有的好书需要静下心去细细梳理其中的脉络,有的好书没心没肺的随手翻翻也会被深深触动. 翻开书前,还曾很认真的大概计划了一下看书的计划,翻开后发现,这是本不用计划去读的书,甚至不用准备书签.随时随地随手翻开任何一页,简短的几句话就足以带你看...