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Nietzsche believes the "'humanitarianism' of Christianity" to be a conspiracy "against health, beauty, well-being, intellect, kindness of soul—against life itself". [ 26 ] Nietzsche suggests that time be calculated from "today", the date of this book, whereby ' Year One ' would begin on 30 September 1888—"The transvaluation of all values !"
The last chapter of Ecce Homo, entitled "Why I Am a Destiny", is primarily concerned with reiterating Nietzsche's thoughts on Christianity, corroborating Christianity's decadence and his ideas as to uncovering Christian morality. He signs the book "Dionysus versus the Crucified."
In 1881 Nietzsche called Christianity a 'disease'. In 1882, after announcing that 'God is dead,' Nietzsche charged Christianity with being a control trick. In 1886 he returns to the idea that Christianity is a disease. In 1887 Nietzsche charges that Christianity is cruel and perverse. By 1895, Nietzsche openly 'condemned' Christianity.
Friedrich Nietzsche wrote that Christianity fosters a kind of slave morality which suppresses the desires which are contained in the human will. [8] The Russian Revolution, the Chinese Revolution, and several other modern revolutionary movements have also led to the criticism of Christian ideas.
The fashionable notion that Nietzsche was not anti-Jewish but anti-Christian, they argue, ignores the fact that what Nietzsche most bitterly detested in Christianity was its Jewish origins. — Steven Aschheim, 1992, The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany 1890-1990 , p. 327
Nietzsche is not a hedonist, arguing that any passions in excess can "drag their victim down with the weight of their folly." However, he maintains that it is possible for the passions to ultimately become "spiritualized." Christianity, he criticizes, instead deals with immoderate passions by attempting to remove the passion completely.
Thus originates what Nietzsche calls the "slave revolt in morality", which, according to him, begins with Judaism (§7), for it is the bridge that led to the slave revolt, via Christian morality, of the alienated, oppressed masses of the Roman Empire (a dominant theme in The Antichrist, written the following year).
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche [ii] (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philologist, philosopher, poet, cultural critic and composer who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. [14]