Oddbean new post about login | logout I've been reading On the Genealogy of Morals. Can someone tell me what precisely is meant the "ascetic ideal" and "ascetic priest"?
I think the "ascetic ideal" is best observed in the lives of the saints. Get you the synaxarion and read the lives of the saints or investigate the emergence of the early church and all of its martys/desert ascetics. Just pure devotion to truth...which in the Christian worldview is a person and not some abstract idea.