"Nietzsche, Friedrich - The Antichrist" - читать интересную книгу автора (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)

dishonourable in all things. The pathetic thing that grows out of this
condition is called faith: in other words, closing one's eyes upon one's
self once for all, to avoid suffering the sight of incurable falsehood.
People erect a concept of morality, of virtue, of holiness upon this
false view of all things; they ground good conscience upon faulty
vision; they argue that no other sort of vision has value any more, once
they have made theirs sacrosanct with the names of "God," "salvation"
and "eternity." I unearth this theological instinct in all directions:
it is the most widespread and the most subterranean form of falsehood to
be found on earth. Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false:
there you have almost a criterion of truth. His profound instinct of
self-preservation stands against truth ever coming into honour in any
way, or even getting stated. Wherever the influence of theologians is
felt there is a transvaluation of values, and the concepts "true" and
"false" are forced to change places: what ever is most damaging to life
is there called "true," and whatever exalts it, intensifies it, approves
it, justifies it and makes it triumphant is there called "false."...
When theologians, working through the "consciences" of princes (or of
peoples--), stretch out their hands for power, there is never any doubt
as to the fundamental issue: the will to make an end, the nihilistic
will exerts that power...
10.
Among Germans I am immediately understood when I say that theological
blood is the ruin of philosophy. The Protestant pastor is the
grandfather of German philosophy; Protestantism itself is its peccatum
originale. Definition of Protestantism: hemiplegic paralysis of
Christianity--and of reason. ... One need only utter the words "Tubingen
School" to get an understanding of what German philosophy is at
bottom--a very artful form of theology. . . The Suabians are the best
liars in Germany; they lie innocently. . . . Why all the rejoicing over
the appearance of Kant that went through the learned world of Germany,
three-fourths of which is made up of the sons of preachers and
teachers--why the German conviction still echoing, that with Kant came a
change for the better? The theological instinct of German scholars made
them see clearly just what had become possible again. . . . A backstairs
leading to the old ideal stood open; the concept of the "true world,"
the concept of morality as the essence of the world (--the two most
vicious errors that ever existed!), were once more, thanks to a subtle
and wily scepticism, if not actually demonstrable, then at least no
longer refutable... Reason, the prerogative of reason, does not go so
far. . . Out of reality there had been made "appearance"; an absolutely
false world, that of being, had been turned into reality. . . . The
success of Kant is merely a theological success; he was, like Luther and
Leibnitz, but one more impediment to German integrity, already far from
steady.--
11.
A word now against Kant as a moralist. A virtue must be our invention;
it must spring out of our personal need and defence. In every other case
it is a source of danger. That which does not belong to our life menaces
it; a virtue which has its roots in mere respect for the concept of