A Brief History of Thought by Luc Ferry

Author:Luc Ferry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins US

It is no longer a case therefore of piecing together or reconstituting a human world, Kant’s ‘realm of ends’, where men are at last equal in dignity. To postmodern eyes, democracy, whatever content it is assigned, is merely one more religious illusion among others; one of the worst, in fact, since it usually dissimulates itself under the appearance of a break with the religious world, pretending to a free ‘laicity’ (the state of being of the people, not members of the clergy). Nietzsche never ceases to return to this, with the greatest lucidity, as in this passage from Beyond Good and Evil:

We who hold to a different belief – we who consider the democratic phenomenon to be not merely a decadent form of political organisation, but a decadent (that is to say, diminished) form of the human being, one that reduces him to mediocrity and debases his value – where are we to pin our hopes?

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