Concept
Asceticism
Overview
lifestyle of frugality and abstinence of various forms, often for spiritual goals
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But it sometimes happens that it frees itself from this subordination and passes to the first place, and that the system of interdicts swells and exaggerates itself to the point of usurping the entire existence. Thus a systematic asceticism is born which is consequently nothing more than a hypertrophy of the negative cult. The special virtues which it is believed to confer are only an amplified form of those…
Émile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
States what Asceticism is; names Asceticism several times.
There is an obstinacy against oneself, certain sublimated forms of which are included in asceticism. Certain kinds of men are under such a strong necessity of exercising their power and dominating impulses that, if other objects are lacking or if they have not succeeded with other objects they will actually tyrannize…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
The author is tied to Asceticism in the knowledge graph; names Asceticism twice.
In a certain sense the whole of asceticism is to be ascribed to this: certain ideas have got to be made inextinguishable, omnipresent, "fixed," with the object of hypnotising the whole nervous and intellectual system through these "fixed ideas"--and the ascetic methods and modes of life are the means of freeing those ideas from the competition of all other ideas so as to make them "unforgettable." The worse memory…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy.
States what Asceticism is; the author is tied to Asceticism in the knowledge graph.
Philosophers who discussed Asceticism
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Mircea Eliade
- The Clouds
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Max Weber
- Mozi
- Ibn Arabi
- Meister Eckhart
- Pythagoras
- Diogenes
- Henry Corbin
- Thomas More
- Buddhism
- The Buddha
- Zeno of Citium
- Plotinus
- Nikolay Chernyshevsky
- Henry David Thoreau
- Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
- Eduard von Hartmann
- Islam
- Philipp Mainländer
- Aśvaghoṣa
- Apollonius of Tyana
Related ideas
- Epicurus
- Tirthankara
- Ancient Egyptian religion
- Prajñā (Buddhism)
- Vishishtadvaita
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Santa Barbara, California
- Jesus
- Francis of Assisi
- Harvard University Press
- Ahimsa in Jainism
- Sentient beings (Buddhism)
- Hedonism
- Hinduism
- Historian
- Abrahamic religions
- Nirvana (Buddhism)
- Indian religions
- Samadhi
- Waldensians
- Vedas
- Abingdon-on-Thames
- Judaism
- Vocation
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Ancient Greek philosophy.