PHL217H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Asceticism, Evil Eye, Ressentiment
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Nietzsche opens the third essay with a question: what do ascetic ideals mean? . Unsurprisingly, nietzsche suggests that ascetic ideals have no single meaning, but have meant different things to different types of people through time. Artists, scholars, philosophers, women, the disgrunted," priests, saints, monks, etc. (def. ) asceticism: severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons. Ascetic ideals would be the forms of behavior and ascetic would ideally engage in-rigorous forms of self-denial such as fasting, sexual abstinence or living in a state of self-imposed poverty. The questions, what do ascetic ideals mean? can be taken to ask: The ascetic abstains from the things of this world in order to wholly dedicate himself to his contemplative or religious ideals. Asceticism comes from the greek word which means exercise or training . Asceticism is a form of spiritual training that includes the shunning of worldly pleasures as one of its key components.
