PHL100Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Asceticism is the denial of pleasures and impulses, reasoning there is greater value in abstinence as it adheres to spirituality or higher meaning (poverty, humility and chastity) Man invented the bad conscience to cause himself pain after more natural outlet for this desire was blocked. Guilt before god becomes an instrument of torture. Philosophers, endangered by their own thinking or rather their ability to will, see asceticism as a guide to self-mastery of their own ideas. Their withdrawal from normality and attempt at self-indulgence through ascetic ideals usually welcomes distrust from others. Ascetic priest is the most serious representative of asceticism, insofar as the practices they undertake solely base their lifestyles around ascetic ideals. Priests will to power through asceticism is their ressentiment against the strong and pleasure indulged. This will to power utilizes the weakness, reversing it to serve as strength in order to achieve mastery over life itself. How does this constitute or lead to an.
