It is not content to perceive and sympathize it involves the willingness to assume responsibility and to sacrifice.
love as a virtue does not end with projection and understanding. Humbition replies: Judge, that you may be judged! Since there is no name for it we shall have to coin one-at the risk of sounding humorous: humbition… Meekness says: Judge not, that you be not judged!. Fused, they represent the first cardinal virtue. Hence, ambition and humility are not two virtues: taken separately, they are not admirable. Petty aspirations can be satisfied and may be hostile to humility. There is no teacher of humility like great ambition. What I praise is not the meekness that squats in the dust, content to be lowly, eager not to stand out, but humility winged by ambition. But humility fused with smugness, with complacency, with resignation is no virtue to my mind. Humility consists in realizing one’s stark limitations and remembering that one may be wrong. The first lacks any single name but is a fusion of humility and aspiration. A long list would be ineffective a short list would probably leave out much that I deem it important for it here are four cardinal virtues. To communicate it, one has to enumerate virtues.
It is not a morality of rules but an ethic of virtues. My own ethic is not absolute but a morality of openness. Here are some excerpts from Kaufmann’s writings regarding morality: But to determine in the first place what is moral and immoral, we cannot settle the matter by relying on a deeply felt religious faith.
It may supply additional motives for being moral and for not being immoral. Instead, he is using “faith” to describe the attitude of a person who cares intensely yet has “sufficient interest to concern himself with issues, facts and arguments that have a vital bearing on what he believes.” Kauffman argues that there are at least two types of faith: the faith of the true believer and the faith of a heretic.Ĭannot be based on religion, religion can be used to help prop it up. When Kaufman speaks of “faith,” he is not referring to close-minded beliefs that contravene evidence. In this sense, heresy is the price of all originality and innovation. Heresy is a set of opinions at variance with established or generally received principles. What is a “heretic”? According to Kaufmann: After re-reading portions of this work recently, I was again impressed. Back in the 1970’s, I found the Faith of a Heretic to be well-written and, at many points, inspirational. Walter Kaufmann is well-known as a translator of virtually all of Nietzsche’s works. The book is currently out of print, though I have retained my copy. Back in the late 1970s, I found a copy of a book called The Faith of a Heretic, by Walter Kaufmann.
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