NIETZSCHE Explained: The Antichrist (Full Analysis)
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This is our full series on Friedrich Nietzsche's The Antichrist. In this first part we will briefly introduce the work and go over some necessary context. In following parts, we will do a deep dive analysis.
As always, we begin with the title. The original German, Der Antichrist, actually has two meanings in English. It can literally mean “the Antichrist”, referring to the character in the Bible that is predicted to come to Earth in the end times.
But it can also simply mean “Anti-christian”.
Nietzsche is obviously being provocative by engaging in this double entendre, which is also why most English translations decide on “The Antichrist” as the title. Although, it must be noted, Nietzsche never uses the term “Antichrist” in the book to refer to the biblical character. He only ever uses the term to mean “Anti-Christian.”
The title of this work is also less mysterious than, let’s say, Daybreak, Twilight of the Idols, and of course, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. It’s obvious what Nietzsche will attempt in this work: a sustained critique of the Christian worldview and morality.
The Antichrist was actually the first instalment in a planned four-volume work, which Nietzsche could never complete due to his mental collapse. The work was to be entitled:
The Will to Power: A Transvaluation of All Values
And the four volumes making up the work would be:
1. The Antichrist: an Attempt at a Criticism of Christianity.
2. The Free Spirit: a Criticism of Philosophy as a Nihilistic Movement
3. The Immoralist: a Criticism of Morality, the Most Fatal Form of Ignorance
4. Dionysus: the Philosophy of Eternal Recurrence.
As it stands, however, only the first volume, the Antichrist, was released as intended by Nietzsche. There have been attempts to reconstruct Nietzsche’s original vision of this great work but this is controversial. This reconstruction is known as The Will to Power and was heavily edited by Nietzsche’s sister. Because of this, and because Nietzsche never intended these notes for publication in the first place, this reconstruction is not generally considered to be canonical.
But back to the Antichrist. This work was written in 1888, which makes this book, together with the autobiography Ecce Homo, Nietzsche’s final publication before his descent into madness. Just like with Twilight of the Idols, this means that the book is of a very radical nature. The late Nietzsche pulls no punches in his philosophical writings. He wants to hit hard and provoke his audience. We will see exactly how as this series continues.
Much of what we will cover in this series, will sound familiar to long-time viewers of the channel. We will talk about décadence, the Will to Power, master and slave morality, and other Nietzschean concepts that were covered in other videos.
In the next part, we will go over the notion of pity and why Nietzsche thought that pity was one of the most harmful elements of Christianity.
In earlier works, Nietzsche already spoke out against pity, or compassion. For example, in a paragraph of The Joyful Science, Nietzsche laments how pity leads us away from our own path and our individuality: pity as a distraction.
Nietzsche’s demonization of pity or compassion is an obvious attack on Schopenhauer’s philosophy, which held that compassion is the root of all morality. In fact, he is probably directly alluding to Schopenhauer in the above passage. And it is true, that for Schopenhauer, supreme goodness consists in complete compassion for other people and animals, so much so, that the perfectly good person should forget his own individuality altogether!
This is absolutely appalling to Nietzsche. In this formulation of pity, Nietzsche sees a denial of life, a resignation, a saying of No. A degeneration of man’s primal instinct: the will to power.
Pity, driven to its ethical conclusion, will make you a part of the herd by stamping out your individuality. Pity is the primary virtue of slave morality.
But this is not the whole story. There is another problem with pity.
The reaction to pity, Nietzsche argues, is always disproportional to the cause. This makes pity extra insidious. Pity is the ultimate emotion of corruption, of degeneracy, because when we are being compassionate, we take the side of the weak and grant them a kind of power which they do not deserve.
But what is Nietzsche’s endgoal in writing this scathing critique of the Christian faith? Nietzsche wanted a transvaluation of all values - a new system of ethics, of philosophy, a new system of life, completely opposed to the decadent values that he saw were dominating the culture; decadent values that found their source and justification in Christianity.
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schopenhauer and neitzsche are basically the modern epitomies of the right and left hand path respectively, where Jung was just a god damned psychic astronaut.
Elaborate...Neitsche was an anarchist in that even Christ would destroy a corrupt world.
Nietzsche accused Kant and Schopenhauer of being Christians disguised as philosophers. And that Kant put the cart before the horse by building a philosophy around predetermined conclusion.
What probably he didn't realise is that he, Nietzsche, himself set out to destroy Christian morality and to rescue humanity from the clutches of god-consciousness as a priori judgements.
Essentially he was on the Left even before he articulated his thoughts.
So yes, I agree with the top comment here.
@@golmaal138 left and right hand paths are completley different to right/left in politics fyi. Right hand path is the mainstream/ masses, left hand path is the individual.
@@MCE851 lol!! left is hard core collectivist
@@coleride not really. That depends on which country your from.
Truly one of the best channels on here. Great visuals, easy to understand, so educational, I could go on. Love it
*sees nietzsche*
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Phenomenal job!!!! Nietzsche's work is so deep and passionate, and he doesn't always get things right, but he's unafraid of ripping things open to reveal truths. And it seems to me that his devastating breakdown was all but inevitable.
I've always felt the thought of eternal return busted him. He grasped that living that way as courageous fortitude meant (as Jung would say) an anhendoian situation where the psychological opposite is cathected into reality:
thus amor fati became for him the flowering consciousness of a self-pity buried deep within the etiology of 'noble valuations', as the refusal to pity is unveiled as a subliminal species of ressentimént!
He had a congenital error, it killed his father, his brother, and him. Pdychologise your way around that.
31:00 the Deformation
i know right? these people could have done better than him lmao@@christopherellis2663
Our series on The Antichrist in one video for your convenience. We're working hard to get Schopenhauer's "How to be happy" part 2 out. Should be out on Wednesday! If you found this video helpful, please consider subscribing. If you want to support the channel, please leave a like and a comment for the algorithm. Thank you for watching!
Thank you for working hard for me to be happy about Arthur Schopenhauer.
I was just reading (viewing) about S. In my personal situation, I have no one to discuss these issues with.
Ever heard of "The Grail Message by Abdrushin" written by a German (called Oskar Ernst Bernhardt) in the early 20th century. He later moved to Austria and gathered a group around him. He said he was a messenger of God (Abd-ru-shin means "servant of God") to anounce the Judgement days which has already begann as he anounced the message in the early 20th century.
But unfortunately he was put under house arrest by A. Hitler for spreading the message of God.
Here a taste of his writings in one of his lectures called "The Antichrist": "It is sad that until now not even the churches have known where to look for this Antichrist, although it has already been active among all of mankind for so long. With only a little alertness they should have recognized it! Who can possibly act in a more anti-Christian manner than those who at the time fought against Christ Himself and finally even murdered Him! Who could have revealed themselves in a worse and more obvious way as being the Antichrist!
They were the leaders and representatives of earthly religion; the true teaching of God, as revealed in and through the Son of God, did not fit into their own structure. Indeed, the true Message of God could not be reconciled with it, since the structure set up by the earthly priests and dignitaries was aimed primarily at earthly influence, earthly power and expansion. They proved quite clearly thereby that they were servants of the human intellect, which is directed solely towards earthly knowledge and earthly power, and is hostile and obstructive to anything that is beyond earthly comprehension! Now since God as well as the spiritual remain completely outside the range of earthly intellectual knowledge, it is actually the intellect which is clearly the only real obstacle! Thus, by its nature, it is opposed to all that is Divine and all that is spiritual! And therefore, as a logical consequence, so are all those men who accept their intellect as being the highest and best thing, seeking to build upon it alone!
The religious leaders of those days were afraid of losing influence among the people through the enlightenment of the Son of God. As everyone today knows, this was the main reason for the slander they sought to spread against Christ and ultimately for the execution of the Son of God. They nailed Him to the cross as a blasphemer of the very God Who had sent Him to bring enlightenment, and Whose servants they professed to be!
How little did they really know this God and the Will of Him Whom they pretended to serve, in whose honor and earthly defense they, however... murdered this Son of God, the Divine messenger!
Whoever expects clearer proof cannot be helped; for there is nothing more in opposition to Christ, the Son of God, and His Words! And indeed Antichrist signifies the fighter against Christ, against man’s redemption in God’s Message.
Behind this, however, stands Lucifer himself as the Antichrist in person! He is the one who was able to raise his head through men! He, the only real enemy of God! He acquired the name of Antichrist through his hostile struggle against the Mission of the Son of God. None other would have had the strength and the power to become the Antichrist.
And in his warfare against the Will of God, Lucifer makes use not merely of one man on earth but of nearly all of mankind, thus leading them to destruction under the effect of the Divine Wrath!
With this he set his foot upon this earth as lord of the earth and of the greater part of mankind!
No wonder, then, that he could penetrate all the way to the altars, and that earthly religious representatives, even those of the Christian churches, were bound to become his victims. For they too expect the Antichrist just before the predicted Judgment. In this respect the great Revelation in the Bible, like many other things, has not yet been understood.
*"The Book of Revelation says that this Antichrist will raise his head before the Judgment! But not that he is yet to come! If it is said therein that he raises his head, this clearly indicates that he must be here already, but not that he is yet to come. It means that he will be at the pinnacle of his dominion shortly before the Judgment!"*
Listen to this warning call, you who have not yet become spiritually deaf and blind! Make the effort of thinking very seriously about it yourselves; for this is what is demanded of you now! If you remain indolent in this respect you give yourselves up as lost!
Grail Message by Abdrushin
@@stephenpowstinger733I won’t claim to be prepared for a conversation, but I’m open to trying a dialogue.
Excellent work as always.
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hey man, I was wondering, do you make them in small parts just so you can have more consistent content? I prefer the longer videos like this personally but like a lot of the stuff you put out no matter the length, just curious. keep up the good work brobro
Good work bro
Thank you
good job!! thanks for sharing,,, it would be good if you attempt to characterize a possible near future similar to the renaissance...
Wonderful series, thanks! One minor criticism I have relates to the final part of the concluding video, where you describe Nietzsche's unfinished magnum opus as something he would want to be, or to be characterized as, "a neat system." Although his project was colossal and radical in its potential/partial character, he knew by long before that point that "systems" or systematic thinking of any kind in philosophy, psychology, philology, or in virtually any other field of (so-called scientific, so-called) knowledge (at least in the "human sciences") are a non-starter, and this partly on account of the theologically-stinking implications that tend to come with the imagined pursuit or possession of some closed or absolute systematic knowledge or interpretation of...well, anything really.
I wouldn't be surprised if he referred to the transvaluation as an enterprise of system-building or systematizing, but can't imagine he'd want to call it that except perhaps mockingly or self-satirically.
Or as Freddy Nitch himself puts it in the Twilight of the Idols:
Ich mißtraue allen Systematikern und gehe ihnen aus dem Weg. *Der Wille zum System ist ein Mangel an Rechtschaffenheit.*
[I distrust all systematicists and keep out of their way. The will to system is a lack of personal integrity.]
Please excuse the improvised translation---'Rechtschaffen' strikes me as an especially tricky one to decipher.
Thanks again.
I feel this should be a major criticism. If Nietzsche thought his work could ever be finished, he would have said so, and he often said the opposite. Instead, it is like a point that could be sharpened forever more sharp.
I can’t wait!
25:23 Look who's back modafocka!!! This image really brings the idea of "i'll get you on the outside" they were trying to make, well done 👏👏.
This is pretty good. Thanks man.
Excellent series, a very well encapsulation of "The antichrist". Keep it up!
Thanks for putting this all together on one video! By the way, a Japanese Buddhist teacher named Masao Abe has a book Zen and Western Thought. One can't judge a book by the cover,but it has Nietsche face to face with Bodhidharma,the founder of Zen. I think you might find it interesting 😉🤔your great work starts my week very well 😀👍
Nietzsche is a zen master for das last 11 years of his life on earth.
Sounds interesting… I’ll have to look into it. Thanks for the support Frank!
Nietzsche is completely correct about the Protestant reformation being the thing which ruined Europe. For centuries the true and beautiful metaphysics was slowly subverting the Catholic church and restoring the old ways back to Europe, during the Renaissance this process was being accelerated, and then the Protestant reformation set us back a millennium. I feel the same thing happened in Eastern Europe, as they were reforming Eastern Orthodoxy and it was cut short but the Communists
Awesome!
Suprisingly uplifting
4:10 WOOOAH, that sounds BADASS.
Do you plan on doing Zarathustra in parts like this, or maybe the Birth of Tragedy?
Yes, definitely
Amazing
2:44 is that true stone? OMG that is magnificent.
God bless you, I appreciate your videos about philosophy with all the interpretation, quotes and concepts. 😃❤️
I would characterize it as an “ascension to madness” and not “descent into madness”..a middle ground could be a “retirement to madness”
Nietzsche remained truthful to his criticism for Socratic rationality
Great!
22:15 It's sad and horrible, and a dishonor to him. But imagine how destructive it was for the apostles!!! Not only seeing their beloved leader going through such an abhorrent violence and humiliation while also having all their beliefs crushing down in front of them. And if they actually believed he was holy it would be a shock so big is hard to conceive today.
Just now i realize the extent of this devastation. I truly i wish to know all of their history but sadly i will never now (i would say a huge part that helps in the myth of Jesus is the lack of evidence but people would utterly ignore either way).
fascinating.
What is the name of the statue shown at 13:44 ?
I find this very good but there are other reasons for disliking pity and Christianity.
What do you think of Anthony Ludovici as an introduction to Nietzsche?
But when Nietzsche posited a physics of Eternal Recurrence (WP #1003; Kaufman ed.) for a metaphysic of Will to Power he made "the infinite" into an abstract veridical reality that leads intuitively to the concept of divinity. 2nd reason for his madness: the emptiest, most definitionally unreal of mathematical abstractions becomes a key idea in his version of reality. A paradoxicality which also condones intuitive religiosity.
What’s the painting¿ at 8:16 thank you
I'd probably translate the title as "Against the Christians" or "On the Antichrist: Or Against the Christians" as that phrase as a transliteration has a long history reaching to figures such as Emperor Julian and Celsus the Platonic-Epicurean philosopher.
9:00 NO... The "weak" are not weak at EVERYTHING...
Pity is not about "letting the weak survive" - It's about recognizing that someone that's weak at something has OTHER things to offer.
...Unless Nietzche was talking about co-dependent people... in which case I prolly agree...
22:34 🌻
11:36 sounds like Bill Gates is one of Nietzsche's doctors
I think we can all safely say that Nietzsche's least-favorite Chaos god is Nurgle. That boi embodies both a sick, twisted form of compassion AND absolute disease, plague and ruin. Lol.
What is his take on Aquinas or Orthodox on the more balanced material realm with the concept of God?
Good question. He spends a fair bit on Augustine in the Antichrist but regarding Aquinas I’m not sure on the top of my head
I might be going crazy but I want to dedicate my life to spreading the word of overman play the seeds of the next generation for an 80 years of Frederick Nietzsche will be born
My parents sent me to church when I was younger maybe 2yrs. Even tho I have just a basic understanding of it, even I know your not supposed to feel pity and give up your life to help the unfortunate. You’re to help them if you can by giving them food and donations if you’re able. The Bible is all about everyone taking their own journey thru life. Pity and welfare are morals that our society has instituted.
You clearly did not read it
What is resentimo?
you can't be Anti something that doesn't exist
He believes there was one Christian. And he died on the cross. It is the religion of Christianity and its morals that he is against.
Christianity exists
My question to you is where did Nietzsche get his information on Jesus and his disciples to come to the conclusion he did about Jesus teaching and how the disciples reacted if the gospels are already afflicted with the misconception?
Compassion for others is the problem. Selfishness for your family only is the cure.
"...what this leads to is a distrust of the word nature."
This is why Peterson is nihilistic.
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Much appreciated!
Weak and meek are not the same thing. How does this dichotomy (if at all) bridge the gap between Nietzsche and the Bible?
It is a virtue to possess great strength and not feel the need to use it in pursuit of our selfish desires.
He is so anti pity (and compassion overall?) yet he took so much pity on the horse getting lashes he stepped in to take the lashes himself ?
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This philosopher eventually became demented in pursue to elaborate his views on scripture.... this phenomenon has been observed... ! An incomplete... thought GypsyTrail
it belongs to me
He was righting all this book about himself and his life story if you understand him well.
Yes replace Christianity with his religious female family members and you will see who is really railing against. They tormented him and he fled to intellectualism.
@@MCE851 Absolutely my thoughts and feelings, too, from what I think and feel and firtly know about him, or think to know. Nothing should be judged and this is no judgement but only my thoughts and feelings about Nietzsche, - to make this clear. In fact in my opinion he was a poor being, He came to conclusions many men come to during their lifetime but never found inner peace and would accept that their is universal love and be-ing which every human is invited to be part of not matter what religion or if you would call it God or anything else. He seemingly was a man full of (self-)hate for himself because he couldn't control everything. He lost his love and spirituality that exists in every being somewhere during his life. He lost his faith and he lost his way. He became an egocentric zynic being and tried to hide hide himself by fleeing into "intellectualism", as you call it. That's my opionion.
The kingdom of god is within me because man is a god in ruins
8:23 - 9:12📌
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Nietzshe is indeed powerful, but Jung already identified his weakness:
The Last Man.
If the picture of Jesus in the bible is already distorted, how does Nietzsche think he's arrived at an accurate picture of Jesus?
Getting a Christian ad on this, löl
Sad. He found out though...
This book belongs to those not yet born. . .
Thank you for the high quality video.
I thought at first, no wonder he went insane, writing a book like that. I suppose in Nietzsches time, there was just as much darkness as there is today. I partly agree with him, that there are to many mistakes in theology, and in the concept of Christianity, but my how and why differ utterly from his views. From my viewpoint, the term "antichrist" is reserved for the pope, and any definition of Christianity is wrong, when Catholicism is defined as it. The word Christ is the Greek translation of the Hebrew word Messiah; knowing that gives a better definition of Christianity. His words on Luther are ridiculously mistaken, because the only reason Martin Luther was important, was that he translated the Bible. Same with Erasmus. Every one was murdered in their time, for reading the Bible in the common language. So Nietzsche was right, one could claim, that Luther saved Christianity, but popery is roman propaganda, not some sect of Christianity. Later in life, Luther tried to destroy popery, just as Nietszche tried to. But at least, Martin Luther knew who antichrist was, just as the other reformers did, I didn't hear any light like that from Nietszche in this reading. Wat does he even mean, when using the word "Christianity"? I suppose Prussian Sunday worshipers, although the word "Sunday" is not even found in the Bible. That's how wrong Christians are.
Christianity is metaphysics of a hangman
You have drunk a little too much Seventh Day Adventist Kool Aid.
@Michael Loftus Liar.
@Michael Loftus You find the quality of the video not very good?
Yah still don’t understand maybe I’m not ready to understand what the hell he is talking about
For all the merits of Nietzsche, this thesis of Luther restoring Christianity is just laughable
Nietzsche’s father was a Lutheran minister who died when Nietzsche was only 5, wonder how his atheism would have changed if he understood the Crucifixion in context?
Powerful insights,,,thx,a lot,,🎩,My opinion it's ,,that religions, are dengerous to humanity ,Bible it's a dengerous book for people minds and I really don't care if others disagree with my statement ,,,🤨
Egalitarianism, which is the product of Christianity is far more dangerous.
The story is good. Look at Jordan Peterson
Good One! @@Vwerlg
Nietzsche had clearly never read the Old Testament. He didn't seem to understand that Jesus came to fulfill the Old Testament, which has all throughout it the need for a sacrifice to atone for Sin. He also didn't grasp the myriad of prophecies and predictions which Jesus fulfilled, nor understand the Hebrew mindset at the time within which they expected their Messiah to be a conquering warlord.
This book appears written entirely out of ignorance.
the next few lines of the beginning of the book whill give you a good insight why i call Nietzsche a nazist
The shrigma male (rarest male type)
There is only 1 sigma male and he dies of pity on a plus sign
@@satnamo Nope passivity isnt sigma
The thinker man must not of known the
difference between pity & compassion
Do you really think that Nietzsche, philologist and illustrious philosopher, did not know how to distinguish those two words?
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Philosophying & illustrating isn't feeling.
Nor is pity the same as compassion.
Be careful who You idolize & praise
For he himself went and lost his mind
His soul lost and cast into the abyss.
Him and his ilk are not who we should
be trusting or be trying to emulate.
Philosophers theologians scientists
Ideologies religions and secret societies
All of them are lying two faced serpents
They who disregard and mock G-D
Those who replace G-D by raising
themselves up on high as G-D.
Cursed are those types and sorts
An abomination in the sight of thy L-rd G-D
The blind in heart have the will of sheep
when been lead to their own slaughter
To listen too and follow those kind
is to embrace evil rebellion & darkness
Only the sleeping and the blind follow
such people and beings.
So go ahead blind and sleepy sheep.
Jesus did not say that loving one's neighbors is the greatest commandment -- He said 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind,' (Luke 10:27), quoting Deuteronomy 6:4-9. "Love thy neighbor as thy self," is the second greatest commandment, He said.
The enemy is narcissism, greed, sloth, gluttony, dishonesty and an otherwise over elevation of self or uncontrolled id. But this affects everyone in spite of standing in the hierarchy. Beggars can be slothful but rulers can be stuck with power whether they are lazy or driven. The enemy is dysfunction. Compassion is only a weakness if it causes enabling. Frederick Nietzsche was reckless.
Dude.. why do you keep condemning the will to power as a 'heavily edited' and tampered with peice of work.
There are reasons to argue the oposite; that minimal tampering took place.. do you think it is even possible to impersonate Nietzsche; do you think anyone would by nieve enough to make such an attempt?
Regardless, i enjoy your channel; thank you for the influx of videos and material
Impersonating Nietzsche has been done before. Look up “My Sister and I”
@@WeltgeistYT Well I'll be damned; I had no idea.. A quick wiki glance and it says that only 'a minority believe the work to be authentic'; 'most Nietzsche scholars adopted the opinion of Kaufman who imediately identified the book as a forgery'.. Regardless, I stand corrected; ty
It's pretty well known his sister heavily tampered with will to power, to help it appeal more to nazi doctrine.
Yes. The apostles had an agenda. 11 out of 12 of them believed in their agenda so much that they willingly died horrible deaths rather than recant. If someone threatened to cut off Nietzsche's head if he didn't change his philosophical view, would he have changed his perspective? Fairly confident they believed in Jesus harder than Nietzsche believed against Him.
If only Nietzche was alive today! He could look at all the amazing historical analyses of Christianity and the amazing cultural work done by modern anthropologists and historians to understand the Bible’s message in a more accurate way. Unfortunately it seems that the culture of his time, corruption of the church, and lack of historical understanding of the culture Jesus lived in, lead him to the conclusions he made. I can’t blame him, due to a lack of data for his time, but to say that Nietzsche had a caricatured view of the faith is an understatement.
His views on pity shows why he was not successful with women
I feel like he didn’t study universe law. Vibration energy etc. he’s too deep and complicated
18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing....christ is the only christian....the cross made life to be futile
The gospels are historical narrative and even secular scholars are dating them much earlier than they had originally thought, especially in Nietzsche time.
When Nietzsche took speculative metaphysics too literal 😭
I see why people are rattled by this dude 😂
Christianity was forced by authority and power of Rome ,passivity ,humility,love were forced by Rome they wanted you to be like that
"There was only one Christian and he died on the cross." -
Ironically (not) the character of Jesus was a Jew whose primary purpose as Messiah
was to prove to the world that the Jews were gods chosen people.
That makes christianity itself the anti-christ.
Christians would claim the complete opposite.
Nietzsche proclaimed the death of God, but all he did was replace Him with another, and he choose Life. All his beliefs and criticisms are based within his church of The Will, but it does not mean he is right, he simply choose one way of being over another.
Too long intro...
*Neitzsche is mean spirited.* *Without compassion and empathy we can not understand lives outside our own.**Understanding is a type of strength, it enables humans to work with each other, instead of being purely selfish.**Those who are weakened by what happens to them in this life need others to help them find their strength.* *Christ's teachings were about compassion in action, the church's teachings are a different story using Christ for their own gain.*
Not at all. He was noted for his overtly cheerful disposition. He just had a low tolerance for b.s.
He wasn't an American.
I just don’t see the appeal of Nietzche I tried to read thus spoke Zarathustra and it reminded me of how i used to write in elementary school. I just assumed people could see into my mind or imagination without me describing in words what was going on. He seems to have been mad his entire life and finally collapsed later in life.
Well first of all, I wouldn't read Thus spoke Zarathustra first. That is a very complicated piece of philosophical fiction. I think if you had read Beyond Good and Evil, Genealogy of Morals, The antichrist, and the Gay Science before Thus spoke, you would think differently. And keep this in mind as well, Nietzsche didn't really care how his work was interpreted. He was a perspectivist, he wouldn't have wanted his philosophy to be boiled down to some specific system like all other western philosophy was.
Pity comes from the Latin word piety and I believe a lot of Christian contemporaries confuse the definitions..To hold compassion is Godly and I am my brothers keeper, but some brothers and sisters don't want to heal themselves. Some enjoy their sickness. To feel sorrow to Mankin is compassion, but yolking yourself to the herd and not to God is a sin. Most people need to be forgiven and loved from a distance. They don't know what Love is they're sick..step away. God helps those who help themselves..
I have been studying this guy lately, and I went in really wanting to enjoy his work or find something intelligent he has said. No different than the modern common atheist, nietzsche is the epitome of hypocrisy. And unfortunately most of his doctrine is based around complete ignorance of the biblical narrative. I have never heard such a renowned philosopher speak so loudly about a topic they know so little about. He is so disillusioned by Christianity because of so called Christians, that it completely clouded his thought processes.
Nietzsche's real problem was with Luther, not Paul. He attacks a caricature of Christianity.
Wokeism relies on the pity of the priviliged for the disenfranchised and uses it as a weapon in a very Christan way!
"It's inhuman to be blessed where one is cursed." -- Nietzsche
He hated Socrates too 🤣. Nietzche is not about letting the disenfranchised argue their way out of oppression either.
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Irrelevant.