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Beyond Food and Alcohol: New Year with Nietzsche

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'Nowhere else have alcohol and Christianity – the two great European narcotics – been abused with greater depravity’ Nietzsche liked to quip. You won’t find better confirmation of this than during the Christmas period; for many, if the holidays are not a festival of Christianity, then they’re a festival of alcohol. It’s no wonder, then, that Dry January – abstention from alcohol for the first month of the year – has become a popular New Year’s resolution. So too has an equally self-disciplined programme, Veganuary – cutting meat, dairy, eggs and all other animal-derived products from one’s diet and lifestyle. The German philosopher Nietzsche had some personal experience of both of these endeavors, albeit with varying levels of commitment and success. His first and last notable encounter with alcohol occurred in April 1863 while attending Pforta school near his childhood town of Naumberg. After a Sunday spent drinking with his friends, Nietzsche was discovered so rotten drunk that the s

Beyond Food and Alcohol: New Year with Nietzsche Skip to main content Skip to navigation What can the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) tell us about today’s trends for January health commitments and resolutions? 'Nowhere else have alcohol and Christianity - the two great European narcotics - been abused with greater depravity’ Nietzsche liked to quip. You won’t find better confirmation of this than during the Christmas period; for many, if the holidays are not a festival of Christianity, then they’re a festival of alcohol. It’s no wonder, then, that Dry January - abstention f

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