/lit/ - Literature

>>13986797
He had painful episodes, but he clearly had enough functional time to work on being a professor and then on writing. It might also have to do with the way some diseases affecting your brain can make you ecstatic for brief periods or even for a long time. Nietzsche had a certain overconfidence at times as well as ecstatic moments like when he felt the eternal return. He also walked around a lot outdoors which helps elevate one's mood. Besides, he had a way of appreciating even a little bit of an elevated mood, probably due to feeling ill very often.

>>13927768
the devaluation of consciousness in favour of the body

the devaluation of values, especially of good and evil, instead basing their system around power (beyond good and evil, at least, this does not mean beyond good and bad [good and bad being passages to higher and lower powers of acting])

hatred against resentment and the affirmation of joy and life. compare, for example, nietzsche's gay science, his eternal recurrence, and his critique of priests, compared to spinoza who constantly critiques sad passions, anyone who exploits sad passions, and anyone who needs these sad passions to establish their power. both denounce all that separate us from life.

in fact, here is a postcard from nietzsche himself -

“I am utterly amazed, utterly enchanted! I have a precursor, and what a precursor! I hardly knew Spinoza: that I should have turned to him just now, was inspired by “instinct.” Not only is his overtendency like mine—namely to make all knowledge the most powerful affect—but in five main points of his doctrine I recognize myself; this most unusual and loneliest thinker is closest to me precisely in these matters: he denies the freedom of the will, teleology, the moral world-order, the unegoistic, and evil. Even though the divergencies are admittedly tremendous, they are due more to the difference in time, culture, and science. In summa: my lonesomeness, which, as on very high mountains, often made it hard for me to breathe and make my blood rush out, is now at least a twosomeness. Strange! Incidentally, I am not at all as well as I had hoped. Exceptional weather here too! Eternal change of atmospheric conditions!—that will yet drive me out of Europe! I must have clear skies for months, else I get nowhere. Already six severe attacks of two or three days each!! — With affectionate love, Your friend”

>>13925977
you got me there, but deleuze's reading of spinoza is wholesome and fantastic. i dont really care for deleuze's other work at all but his work on spinoza is inspiring.

>>13926158
you should! he is fantastic. what uni are you at?

>>13926755
:) you are right, it won't. but if I can inspire others to read spinoza and to increase their power of acting, I will be happy with myself