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CESARE BORGIA: Nietzsche’s Idol, Machiavelli’s Hero
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Videos mentioned:
Why Nietzsche Loved the Renaissance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oi4NIYPzmQ
OUR ANALYSES:
▶ Beyond Good and Evil: https://youtu.be/WIHXZUltfqk
▶ The Antichrist: https://youtu.be/qej1Z8Qzq_c
▶ Genealogy of Morals: https://youtu.be/6PUx4cOfFcI
▶ Twilight of the Idols: https://youtu.be/YpVr_NEvWYA
▶ The Will to Power: https://youtu.be/He6ZC7ZFBt8
▶ Daybreak: https://youtu.be/cOL2z7nuXdA
▶ The Joyful Science: https://youtu.be/U0fTBOJ-C_I
In The Antichrist, Nietzsche speaks in raving terms about Cesare Borgia, the infamous Italian Renaissance warlord, ruthless conqueror, and, according to Machiavelli, brilliant strategist.
Nietzsche admired Cesare for his uncompromising morals, his will to power that saw him carve out his own path in life with no regard for conventional morality. Ruthless, ambitious, and living for the here and now, Cesare is mentioned both in The Antichrist as well as Beyond Good and Evil, with rare Nietzschean praise.
He dreams of seeing someone like Cesare Borgia in the papal seat, and in Nietzsche's alternative daydream version of history, that would've spelled the end of Christianity as we know it. A full frontal assault right in the center of the enemy: the most un-Christian man in the most Christian chair.
Instead, the Renaissance was destroyed, and Christianity was saved, by none other than Martin Luther. As Nietzsche quipped, he saved Christianity, and destroyed Europe.
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