This work calls solitude, sexual abstinence, and fasting "the religious neurosis.
This work calls solitude, sexual abstinence, and fasting "the religious neurosis." It describes Moliere's description of opium in The Imaginary Invalid as "a sleepy faculty / Whose nature is to put the senses to sleep" and derides Kant as "the great Chinaman of Konigsberg." It differentiates between "masculine" genius which begets and "feminine" genius that is "happy to be impregnated" like the French in a section titled "Peoples and Fatherlands". This work warns against philosophers who are "commanders and law-givers," advising one to follow a new generation dubbed "Experimenters" who will command a new amoral age, which is described in its "aftersong" titled "From the High Mountains." This work notably claims, "there are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena" and calls Christianity "Platonism for the people" in its preface. FTP, name this book subtitled "A Prelude to the Philosophy of the Future" and written by Nietzsche, which criticizes thinkers for clinging to Christian morality.
This work calls solitude, sexual abstinence, and fasting "the religious neurosis.
Beyond Good and Evil [or Jenseits von Gut und Base]