Peter Sjöstedt-H
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Neo-Nihilism: The Philosophy of Power
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published
2014
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3 editions
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Noumenautics: metaphysics - meta-ethics - psychedelics
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published
2015
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“Those so-called atheists who try to base prescriptive morality on biology are guilty of the aforementioned conflation of descriptive and prescriptive morality, a conflation that costs them their authority. Those who argue that morality comes from evolution: that we have evolved sympathy and altruism and that we therefore ought to be sympathetic and altruistic fall into the is-ought gap. That we have evolved these characteristics is not in question. But that we ought to follow them is. The characteristics are descriptions. But these descriptions are then magically transformed into prescriptions. One could equally validly (i.e. not validly) prescribe envy as it too is a characteristic which we have evolved. Aggression and violence have also evolved, else we would not exhibit these tendencies. Both ‘good’ and ‘evil’ (in the traditional sense) have evolved. To”
― Neo-Nihilism: The Philosophy of Power
― Neo-Nihilism: The Philosophy of Power
“The danger of our time is that Christianity won; its form of morality (slave: weakness, humility, compassion; pride is a vice) was so successful that people believe it even without believing in its fundamental anchor: God. Atheism was the final victory of Christianity, because no longer did Christianity need God for itself to prevail as a moral ideology.”
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“Everything that lives instinctually seeks power, survival is merely the lowest degree of that drive to power: one cannot gain power if one is not alive to do so. Thus does Nietzsche assimilate the will to survive into the will to power. All morality, all law, all ideology, are merely expressions of this primal drive.”
― Neo-Nihilism: The Philosophy of Power
― Neo-Nihilism: The Philosophy of Power
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