Chapter X. Soul-image & Life-feeling. (2) Buddhism, Stoicism & Socialism
Winter
Emperor Ashoka (268-232 BC) erects thousannds of stupas (burial mounds), viharas (monasteries) & pillars to honour & spread Buddhism
Clement Attlee, British PM (1945-51)
founder of the modern welfare state in the UK
Stoicism
Buddhism
Socialism
a state of mind free of disturbances from passion (ἀπάθεια—apatheia) , a robust equanimity characterized by on-going freedom from distress & worry (ἀταραξία—ataraxia)
Zeno of Citium
(334-262 BC)
Nirvana-
a transcendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of self, release from karma & the endless cycle of death & rebirth. With Nirvana comes true insight into impermanence and non-self reality, ithe final goal of Buddhism
Siddhārtha Gautama
(563-483 BC)
"What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? Everything that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome."
The Antichrist
Nietzsche
(1844-1900)