Three Pivotal Souls: Friedrich Nietzsche, EVOLUTION; Rudolph Steiner, MYSTERY; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, REVOLUTION

Robert S. Hare

THREE PIVOTAL SOULS:

Friedrich Nietzsche,

EVOLUTION;

Rudolph Steiner,

MYSTERY;

Jean-Jacques Rousseau,

REVOLUTION.

THREE PIVOTAL SOULS: Friedrich Nietzsche, EVOLUTION;

Rudolph Steiner, MYSTERY; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, REVOLUTION

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Table Of Contents

Editor’s Comments

Friedrich Nietzsche, EVOLUTION

The Writer

Christianity

Morality

Democracy

Philosophy

Transition

The Future

Nietzsche Notes

Rudolph Steiner, MYSTERY

Christianity2

The Mysteries (the people’s religion)

Steiner Notes

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, REVOLUTION

Introduction

Early Society

Conventional Society

Ideal Society

Rousseau Notes

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Editor’s Comments

As they produce their works, the souls of great writers open wide, and they connect with the spirit of humankind.

Hare’s Three Pivotal Souls presents writers who lived the pulse of humanity. They described The Eternal Now. Their masterpieces still foretell our future. The vital auguries of Nietzsche, Steiner and Rousseau will forever enlighten the generations.

(Robert S. Hare, January 25, 2019, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.)

Friedrich Nietzsche, EVOLUTION

Nietzsche (1844-1900) lived in Germany. He exposed both Christianity and modernity – their psychological and sociological harm. His teachings of self-willed evolution will transform any open-minded person!

The Writer

A good book inspires, elevates and encourages virtue.¹

He that feedeth the hungry refresheth his own soul.²

The aphorism should be honored. Practice reading as an art form – meditation is needed.³

A good aphorism nourishes the hungry soul.⁴

In the mountains, the shortest route is from peak to peak. But for that way thou must have long legs. Proverbs are peaks: the reader should be big and tall. The atmosphere rare and pure, danger near, and the spirit full of a joyful wickedness – thus are things well-matched.⁵

The Satyricon belongs to the genre we call Menippean satire, that curious blending of prose with verse and philosophy with realism. It was invented by the cynic philosopher, Menippus of Gadara (third century, B.C.E.), and continued by his Roman disciple, Varro (first century, B.C.E.). The Satyricon is an heroic remedy.⁶

Eternal aliveness is what counts in a philosopher’s book.⁷

The work invents the creator.⁸

The noble writer doesn’t want to be understood by just anybody. The noble writer opens the ears of those whose hearing is related to his; at the same time, he erects barriers against the others, keeps them away, creates a distance, forbids entrance.⁹

If ye have the ear, then ye shall hear.¹⁰

My books have the good fortune of being accessible only to high-minded, severe spirits; the rest lack the ear for my books.¹¹

Whomever wanteth fame must practice the difficult art of dying at the right time. To be long loved one must discontinue being feasted upon when one tasteth best! The late young keep long young. Many never becometh sweet.¹²

Nietzsche wrote in a manner insuring his being misunderstood by the kind of reader and nonreader he despised.¹³

By my mere existence, I outrage those who have bad blood in their veins.¹⁴

The noblest spirits of kindness often appear malicious.¹⁵

Forestall snap judgements about Nietzsche.¹⁶

Nietzsche is a brilliant writer and a great human being!¹⁷

Over my path is written, ‘Impossibility.’¹⁸

Whoever can breathe the air of my writings know that it’s an air of the heights, a strong air; one must be made for it; solitude, calm – in the light, how freely one breathes.¹⁹

My revaluation of values is my formula for supreme human self-examination. The truth writes through me.²⁰

I’m a forest, a night of dark trees. Brave my darkness – and find meadows of roses!²¹

Nietzsche’s philosophy honors the critical intellect, yet it utilizes artistic vision.²²

Honoring tragedy, Nietzsche affirms life as sublime, in spite of the suffering.²³

The best and the dearest to me is the sound peasant. He’s artful, obstinate and enduring. The noble genius has endured prolonged degradation. My aim: the peasant type shall be master!²⁴

Every work of Nietzsche’s shouts to us, You must change your life!²⁵

I don’t suffer from all this neglect (no readers); what is necessary doesn’t hurt me; my inmost nature loves fate!²⁶

The time for me hasn’t yet come. Some are born posthumously.²⁷

My writings are difficult: the most abbreviated language ever written by a philosopher; also the most alive, the most artistic. Usually, one must condense; I have to be diluted.²⁸

One of the rarest distinctions that one can accord himself is when he takes one of my books into his hands: having understood five sentences raises one to a higher level of existence than modern people can attain.²⁹

Place my manuscript on the gold scale.³⁰

Christianity

The whole of antiquity was filled with sons of God.³¹

Humanity lost itself in superstitions which were collected from all over and piled up in a dark oriental doctrine.³²

Christianity is the cult of surfaces. Piety is fear of truth. Christianity teaches the rabble to place their selves in an illusory higher order.³³

The Christian faith is a sacrifice of freedom, pride and spiritual confidence. Christianity is lavish nonsense and superstition!³⁴

Christianity was born of resentment, not of spirit; a counter movement by its very nature, it was the great rebellion against the dominion of noble values! The conscience isn’t the voice of God in us; it’s the instinct of cruelty; it turns back because it cannot discharge itself. Cruelty is an ancient and basic substrata of society.³⁵

Effeminate resentment: memory becomes a festering wound; it’s an impotent lust for revenge. No reaction could be more disadvantageous for the exhausted ones.³⁶

A grand politics of subterranean revenge, the Jews denied the very instrument of their revenge before all the world as a mortal enemy and nailed it to a cross – so that all the world, all their enemies, would unhesitatingly swallow just this bait.³⁷

The weak people intend to be strong . . . someday. The blessed in the kingdom of heaven shall behold the punishments of the damned in order that their bliss be even more delightful.³⁸

Suffering and impotence – these alone have created metaphysical worlds. Weariness seeks to get to the ultimate with one leap, a death leap; unwilling even to will any longer, that created otherworlds. The sick body despised itself and the world, and it contrived the heavenly world. These inventors sighed, If only there were heavenly paths by which to steal into another existence and into happiness.

Beyond their bodies and this world they now fancied themselves transported, these ungrateful ones! The sick hate discerning heroes, and the noblest of virtues, which is uprightness. Hearken the sick to the preachers of nihilism!³⁹

Christianity is life-nausea – concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in another world.⁴⁰

The greatest objection to existence – is God.⁴¹

A stroke of genius on the part of Christianity, God sacrificed Himself for the guilt of humanity, God made payment to Himself! The Creditor sacrificed Himself for the debtors.⁴²

Holiness succeeded in reducing the allegedly miraculous to the complicated.⁴³

Christianity: despair of one's self; one becomes the arena of good and evil spirits.⁴⁴

The Christian resolve to find the world bad has made it so.⁴⁵

Verily, too early died that preacher. Had he but remained in the wilderness, away from the good and just Hebrews, then would he have learned to love the earth.⁴⁶

Christianity has been one of the most dreadful chapters in history. A stop must be put to it.⁴⁷

Morality

Morality is the idiosyncrasy of the decadent type. Morality is revenge against life – successful revenge.

The uncovering of Christian morality is an event without parallel, a real catastrophe. Whomever is enlightened about this is a major force, a destiny – he breaks the history of humanity in two; one lives before him or one lives after him.

The lightning bolt of truth struck precisely what was held highest so far: everything hitherto called truth has been the most harmful, insidious and subterranean form of falsehood: the holy pretext of improving humanity as the ruse for sucking the blood of life itself! Morality is vampirism!

Whomever uncovers morality also uncovers the disvalue of our values; one sees nothing venerable in those who are pronounced holy; one considers them to be the most calamitous of types because they exerted such fascination.⁴⁸

The unnatural memory must be burned in. Everlasting pain stays in the memory. Religions are, at the deepest level, systems of cruelty. Asceticism and a few ideas and hypnosis are made unforgettable. We overcome forgetfulness. Fear accompanies our morals. We breed careful thinkers. With the aid of spiritual torture, one finally remembers five or six ‘I will nots.’ One comes to reason. Much cruelty lies at the bottom of our morality.⁴⁹

Being moral is obeying tradition. The good person gladly submits. He’s now good for something, he’s now useful and helpful. Being immoral is resisting tradition. Every superstitious custom, which originated on the basis of some misinterpreted accident, involves a moral tradition.⁵⁰

The human being became the mendacious, artificial and opaque animal. We’ve invented the good conscience. The whole of morality is a long forgery.⁵¹

Our moral values are herd values. The morality of neighbor love – pity, fairness, mildness – has received the honorary designation of virtue. Now, the herd instinct draws its conclusion: universal equality. Anti-nature is the mother of morals.⁵²

Contriving value, determining equivalences, and exchanging preoccupied humanity; indeed, these tendencies constituted thinking as such. Thinking progressed inexorably until it arrived at the great generalization: everything has its price, and everything shall be paid for. This thought is justice, and it’s the beginning of objectivity.⁵³

How did consciousness of guilt, the bad conscious, come into the world? This major moral concept has its origin in the relationship between creditor and debtor. Promises are made. A memory is instilled.⁵⁴

Duty: we gain our sovereignty when we balance what others have done for us with what we shall do for them; we repay others with our duty; we intrude.

Rights: when our feeling of power is broken, our rights cease; on the other hand, when we become more powerful, the rights of others cease for us.⁵⁵

Modern morality is a lascivious historical eunuchism, a justice-tartuffery of impotence! They impersonate life; they wrap themselves in objective knowledge; these agitators wear the magic cap of ideals on their straw heads.⁵⁶

Moralities are meant to justify their creators – to calm them and to satisfy them. Moralists vented their creative whims on humanity. Moralities conceal, humiliate or revenge.⁵⁷

Certain strong and dangerous drives, like craftiness and cleverness, are honored as socially useful.⁵⁸

Parents turn their children into something similar to themselves. They call that education. It is simply property possession.⁵⁹

Utility, forgetting, habit, error: morality is spiritual plebeianism!⁶⁰

The end of civilization is approaching; everything is corrupted and corrupts; only one type can here thrive, the incurably mediocre. Become mediocre! – this is now the only morality. This morality of mediocrity never admits to what it is; it speaks of duty and neighbor love.⁶¹

Profound nausea and great pity beget a will to nihilism. Here the web of the most malicious conspiracy is being constantly spun: the conspiracy of the weak against the well-constituted and victorious. Failures want to represent justice and wisdom. Hopeless rabble want to monopolize virtue, and appear as beautiful souls. The will of the weak is the instinct for devious paths to tyranny over the healthy; it’s the will to power of the weakest! The sick use their moral mumbo jumbo in their struggle against the healthy. The resentful people live in a realm of subterranean revenge against the fortunate and happy. They poison the consciences of the fortunate to make them ashamed of their good fortune and doubt their right to happiness.⁶²

Moralities are untrue because they try to regulate all the people, because they generalize where one must never generalize; moralities are unconditional; they come not from wisdom; they are wiliness mixed with stupidity. Morality is timidity.⁶³

Bad: the spirit-broken and sordidly servile ones; the constrained, depressed and world-weary ones. The virtue game abuses selfishness! Selfless do they pride themselves, and with good reason, all these world-weary cowards!⁶⁴

Slave morality reflects a pessimistic suspicion about the whole condition of humanity. The hero separates from himself those intent on narrow utility.⁶⁵

The slave revolt in morality began when resentment itself became creative and gave birth to values. Resentful natures were denied the true reaction, that of deeds, and they compensated with an imaginary revenge. While noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of life, slave morality from the outset says ‘No’; No is its creative deed; its actions are fundamentally reactions.⁶⁶

The noble urge to ascribe value to oneself, to think well of oneself, is suppressed. One feels subjected to other assessments. Submission encircles one. Slaves seduce one to slavery.⁶⁷

The need to be obedient is now innate; we accept whatever public opinion is shouted into our ears. Limited human development is due to the fact that the herd instinct of obedience is inherited best.

The only permissible kind of person glorifies his attributes, which make him tame, easy to get along with, and useful to the herd – as if these were true human virtues: benevolence, consideration, moderation, modesty, indulgence and pity. Clever herd-types replaced heroes!⁶⁸

The noble mode of valuation is positive and spontaneous. Heroes live upright and high-minded. The resentful majority honor cleverness. With noble ones cleverness is far less essential than the perfect functioning of the regulating, unconscious instincts.

Who is evil?; the good one of the other morality, the hero. Evil came out of the cauldron of unsatisfied hatred; it was the original thing of slave morality.⁶⁹

Distrust herd morality. Is morality to blame for the lack of great human splendor? See the ultramodern, unassuming moral milksops, wearing expressions of good-natured and refined pessimism. Onwards! Our old morality is part of the comedy – the Dionysian destiny of the spirit.⁷⁰

Pity is called