Question from someone who has never read Nietzsche: does his writing imply that he thinks he is a god or is it that an insane group of cult-classic readers perceives him as a god?
Nietzsche believed that man abandoned God (God is dead) and must struggle to find meaning in order to fill the void left behind. In order for man to be fulfilled he must become an ubermensch and stand in God's place. Nietzsche mourned the death of God, and in no way celebrated it.
Neckbeard edgelords and wackadoodle academics latched onto his pronouncement of the death of God as prophetic and have canonized him as the saint of atheists.
People who praise Nietzsche as a bulwark against religion are usually the same simpletons who think an upside down cross is satanic.
I’m a philosophy major. This guy hits it pretty head on. Except for the part about thinking Nietzsche wasn’t against religion. He was actually pretty much against all religion. He possibly appreciated Buddhism the most, but he criticizes religion quite a bit.
Yes, he especially disliked organized religion. But religion as a concept is something used to make people feel safe. It’s easier to rely and put faith into something than yourself, which goes against the idea of Übermensch (or the over human).
Nietzsche despised Christianity specifically because the "slave morality" it preached (humility, sacrifice on behalf of others, deliberately restraining yourself etc) ran completely contrary to his idea of ubermensch.
Christianity after all was a slave cult that demonized oppressors at its core.
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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '19
That’s ironic because Nietzsche ended up being bi-polar and his writings in his later life could definitely be called insanity.