the sickness of consciousness in the western philosophical tradition
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The Sickness of Consciousnessin the Western Philosophical Tradition
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The Decadenceof Western Civilization
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The Romans of the DecadenceThomas Couture, 1847
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The Collapse of Civilization
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The Last Days of BabylonGeorges Rochegrosse, 1891
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The Sickness of Civilization
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The PlagueArnold Böcklin, 1898
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“I am a child of my time, that is, a decadent:
the difference is that I understand this, that I revolt
against it.” --Friedrich Nietzsche (1888)
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“The tragedy of all culture [is that]
the higher and more noble it is,
the less right it has to exist,
for it is a superfluous and harmful hotbed
in which life rots and weakens.” --František V. Krejčí (1896)
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Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground
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The Reader of DostoevskyEmil Filla, 1907
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The Sickness of Consciousness
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“Too much consciousness is a sickness…
any consciousness at all is a sickness.”
--Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground (1864)
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“[E]very line in Notes from the
Underground is important…
no thinking person can afford not to
consider carefully all of the ideas expressed
in it.” --Vasily Rozanov (1891)
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“Civilization has done for mankind what life
has done for the Underground Man:
provided it with an excess of
consciousness,
a sick consciousness which has come to
find pleasure in its moral fall.” --Robert Louis Jackson (1958)
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“Pure reflection [...]
is a sickness [and] an evil.” --Friedrich Joseph Schelling (1792)
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“Consciousness of life…
is mere pain and sorrow
over this existence.”--G. W. F. Hegel (1807)
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“[Suffering] is heightened
in proportion to
the clearness of [one’s] consciousness.”--Arthur Schopenhauer (1818)
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“It is the rising level of consciousness,
or the degree to which it rises,
that is the continual intensification of
despair:
the more consciousness,
the more intense the despair.”--Søren Kierkegaard (1849)
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“[O]ur souls have become corrupted in
proportion as our sciences and arts have
advanced toward perfection.”--Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1750)
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“All progress has been in appearance
steps toward
the perfection of the individual,
but in fact toward
the decay of the species.”--Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1754)
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“[I]n following the history of civil society,
we shall be telling also that of
human sickness.”--Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1754)
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“Our feeling for nature
is like the sick person’s
feeling for health.”--Friedrich Schiller (1796)
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“[A]s soon as we experience
the misery of culture
we long to be back where we began.”--Friedrich Schiller (1796)
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“I have never been able to understand the idea
that only one-tenth of the people
should be given higher education,
while the remaining nine-tenths should serve merely
as material and means to that end...
I do not wish to think...
otherwise than with the faith
that all the ninety millions of us Russians...
will some day be educated, humanized, and happy.”--Fyodor Dostoevsky (1876)