Beyond Good and Evil #1: Faith in Opposite Values (Preface & I.1-I.5)
The Nietzsche Podcast
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Nietzsche's Jesuit Philosophy and the Politics of Morality
The Catholic Church was a political entity, we can't forget that. And so one of the ways that you could reconcile the tension of occasionally engaging in behavior that might be immoral is to say it's simply a means to an end for a goal that was ultimately holy and in line with the goals... The ends justify the means. This is roughly what Nietzsche means by bringing up Jesuitism as this attempt to unbend the bow of to resolve that tension,.
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