Recurrent within many practices, including many religions, ascetic ideals aim to relieve those who adopt them as principle from the futile and unenjoyable undertakings that we, as humans, are accustomed to living. Asceticism is the repression of desires and pleasures in the hopes that there is a greater payoff in teetotalism seeing as it coheres to spirituality or a sense of the divine. According to Nietzsche, worth placed upon art through philosophy, along with alternative yet significant disciplines incorporating religious and moral ideas, provided artists with the opportunity to encompass these notions in their creations. Hence they do not contribute to the endeavour of what they mean. Nietzsche employs the predictable inclination that many
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Unlike similar ascetic lifestyles, that of a priest is unable to stray from principles which are all rooted in an ascetic nature. Their existence and identity is hinged upon their devotion to ascetic ideals and, insofar as they don’t comply in absolution to these ideals, they lose who they are. Nietzsche draws attention to the fact that the will power achieved through asceticism is the ressentiment of priests against those who indulge in the pleasures of average human life. Although it may not appear like it to those who are pleasure indulged, the ascetic ideals of priests serve as a route to better means. Hence, Nietzsche identifies this as a life against life, owing to the fact that such a lifestyle denies the one that we as human inherently have and seeks one contradictory to it with the intention of maximizing one’s own will to power. Through refusing to exist with circumstances that come naturally, those who live ascetic lifestyles are constantly testing the amount of power that their will possesses. Through testing one’s boundaries in life, one tests their own existence and the power that they have of it. People blame the beliefs of entities in power for their hardships, and, in response, a priest leading an ascetic life heads their
Unlike similar ascetic lifestyles, that of a priest is unable to stray from principles which are all rooted in an ascetic nature. Their existence and identity is hinged upon their devotion to ascetic ideals and, insofar as they don’t comply in absolution to these ideals, they lose who they are. Nietzsche draws attention to the fact that the will power achieved through asceticism is the ressentiment of priests against those who indulge in the pleasures of average human life. Although it may not appear like it to those who are pleasure indulged, the ascetic ideals of priests serve as a route to better means. Hence, Nietzsche identifies this as a life against life, owing to the fact that such a lifestyle denies the one that we as human inherently have and seeks one contradictory to it with the intention of maximizing one’s own will to power. Through refusing to exist with circumstances that come naturally, those who live ascetic lifestyles are constantly testing the amount of power that their will possesses. Through testing one’s boundaries in life, one tests their own existence and the power that they have of it. People blame the beliefs of entities in power for their hardships, and, in response, a priest leading an ascetic life heads their