faustianism

spiritual or intellectual dissatisfaction combined with a desire for power or material advantage. After Johann Faust (c. 1480-c. 1538), German scholar portrayed by Marlowe and Goethe. — faustian, adj.

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Achilles's braininess doesn't count for much without common sense, the race can indeed be to the slow, and Faustianism is rebuked.

Inventing the Self: Gert Jonke's Fragments of a Great Confession

Behind the facade of democracy rhetoric is the old evil of banality, the opposite of heroic Faustianism.

A Faustian Bargain: U.S. Intervention in the Nicaragua Elections and American Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era

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