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Ask A Left Nietzschean: Is Nietzsche's "Amor Fati" a Reactionary or Revolutionary Concept?

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The Nietzschean Picture of Happiness

The pleasure is in the play. That's what contentment is. And it can take many forms. It could be a very quiet, peaceful activity like gardening or it could be some really sort of ambitious, difficult struggle. This is maybe even a little bit Aristotelian on Nietzsche's part that the highest happiness has to be an activity that is pursued for its own sake. So I think maybe there's an important issue there. Do we in fact desire contentment? When we desire a different social order, if we desire a more egalitarian society,. Is this what we're desiring?"

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