"Faustian Spirit"

[Anonymous No.18070794]

What is it? What does it mean?
I've heard this term peculiarly often recently.

[Anonymous No.18070834]

>>18070794
Someone who is searching and restless in his endeavors.

[Anonymous No.18070931]

>>18070794
It's used by pseuds to sound deep, kind like with that "body without organs" shit

[Anonymous No.18071319]

>>18070794
Its a feeling of restlessness and longing for more power and knowledge by western men.
Its a nu-philosophical way to say "Aryan Soul" since niggers and primitiv natives dont understand delayed gratification.

[Anonymous No.18071822]

>>18070794
Kraut LARPing that gives a “kewl” name to seeking knowledge. As if people weren’t doing this before fucking Krauts came out of their forrests.

[Anonymous No.18072103]

>>18070794
It just means selling your soul for knowledge. For instance the rationalist/scientistic mindset is a result of trading away the four-fold hermeneutic that most Westerners had prior the Renaissance

[Anonymous No.18072139]

someone who is willing to sacrifice everything for more
in other words a typical hegelian

[Anonymous No.18072351]

>>18070794
It means searching for limitless power, pleasure, and knowledge, beyond what you should. The story of Faust involves him making a deal with the devil for these things. It is a tragic phenomenon obviously, somewhat similar to the story of Icarus but the Christian framework deepens the transgression because of its very different moral approach to power, the material world generally, and lust thereof.

You have probably seen the term 'Faustian spirit' in reference to Oswald Spengler, who thought that the Faust myth incarnated the whole of the culture of Western Civilization(post-dark ages, not Rome, etc.). Spengler specifically was referring to Goethe's Faust, which is a bit different than the original legend. Most importantly Faust is saved in the end by God because of the force of his will essentially, rather than being condemned to hell. Spengler thought this symbolized an eternal striving towards an 'infinite horizon' which can never be attained, a tragic disposition which lies at the heart of Western culture, and it is this enormous ambition and will, especially in the sense of 'conquering the horizon', ambition that verges on madness and impossibility, that is usually meant by Faustian spirit in the Spenglerian sense. The Christian meaning is more or less entirely jettisoned, I have seen some attempts to rehabilitate Goethe's Faust with a traditional Christian interpretation but they are not convincing.

[Anonymous No.18072639]

>>18070794
"because it was there"

[Anonymous No.18072645]

>>18071822
kek this. it's pathetic when modern europeans try to pretend they discovered a new concept