Beyond Good and Evil #3: One Ruling Thought (I.17 - II.25)
The Nietzsche Podcast
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The Deistic Worldview of the Christian Life
In the Christian conception of the world there you have God's moral law but there's never an expectation that people are going to live according to that. You could say that perhaps the utopianism of the democratic political spirit is to imagine that we could all live according to a series of rules, says Nicholas Sarkozy. The rise of deism among figures like the founding fathers and the rise of mechanism led to these new understandings of how nature operates said Sarkozy.
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