Comparing Nietzsche And Religion

“As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.” Nietzsche was one of the first modern philosophers to rebel against rationalism and when World War I came about, the revolution against religion truly became a legitimate statement. Friedrich Nietzsche strongly believed that many of those that practiced religion were led to the acceptance of slave morality. Religion had always played a fundamental role in society as it sets strict boundaries and standards of what is morally correct and incorrect. However, Nietzsche claims that, “Human nature is always driven by “ ‘the will to power’ ”, but religion will tell one otherwise, saying that one should forbid their bad desires. In Nietzsche’s

Nietzsche also claims that Democracy is basically insane and that Communism doesn’t work because that’s not life (Nietzsche 259). Nietzsche believes that there’s two moralities: the master and the slave. He believes that you need to keep them apart and that they should not mix at all! Nietzsche wants people like Achilles: proud, noble and despicable. To him, nobles create value, especially himself because his likes or dislikes are the only things that are truly valuable. Nietzsche believes that Christianity is a slave morality, meaning that slaves create their own morality to get through life. He also claims that poor people are liars and that the Aristocrats should not trust them (Nietzsche 260). Reason being: the weak use the powerful just like the powerful uses the weak. Unfortunately for him, he violates the principle of non-contradiction by making this claim.

In Twilight of the Idols Nietzsche emphasizes that the Christian Church is a false idol. He dares to say, “..God to be an enemy of life..” and, “Life ends where the ‘kingdom of God’ begins..” because he believes that Christian morality is against life itself (Idols, 23). The reason for this is because Nietzsche believes that, “to have to fight against the instincts- this is the formula for decadence: so long as the life is ascendant, happiness equals instinct” which simply means that if one goes against instincts, or an intuitive way of carrying ones life, then as a consequence it will lead to the degeneration of society and intellect while if life is on the rise, happiness must be equivalent to following ones’ instinct (Idols, 15). Because of his belief it is understood that Nietzsche wants one to embrace their instincts. Nietzsche states that a life in which

In Nietzsche’s aphorisms 90-95 and 146-162 he attacks what he believes to be the fundamental basis of the “slave” morality prevalent in the Judeo-Christian tradition as well as other religions and societies. From the beginning, he distinguishes the two different types of moralities he believes to exist: the “master morality”, created by rulers of societies, and the “slave” morality, created by the lowest people in societies. The former stresses virtues of the strong and noble while looking down upon the weak and cowardly. This type of morality, however, is not as widespread as the “slave morality” that has been adopted by so many religions. Nietzsche looks through the psychology and logic of

Nietzsche asserts that Judeo-Christianity is founded on a revolt of the noble race. The Jews are uncanny and creative in their invention of slave morality, as they establish Judeo-Christianity as a ressentiment of master morality. Slave morality poses as a danger to humanity because it negates life and promotes the herd mentality. We have the task of examining Nietzsche’s genealogical work, and determining whether its historical claim of the origin of morality is true. Nietzsche’s genealogical work does not include scholarly references to support his claim that Christianity is both philosophically and historically false. However, Nietzsche provides reasons that are logically valid and sound for thinking that Judeo-Christianity poses as a danger to humanity.

In the following section, Nietzsche explains that the reassessment of values effected by the Jews was occurring and that they were not noticeable. One of their achievements was the development of the religious teachings Christianity. He states that the Christian love violated the Jewish hatred and that the representation of Jesus and his crucifixion was the persuasion of the moral code. The embodiment and crucifixion of Jesus showed that annulment of the moral code, was once “good” became “evil” and what

I showed hopefully that Nietzsche was trying to show that the church no longer dominates with its dogma morality teachings. I clearly showed that the God concept had been around for thousands of years and most people believed in the church and God. I also showed how the church dominated the world for seventeen hundred years before Nietzsche wrote the Gay Science. I gave this information about the Church and the God concept to show that when Nietzsche wrote his famous words God is dead he was not literally saying God was dead, but that the concept of God believing in him for moral teachings is dead, are is no longer the only way to moral teachings. Nietzsche was brilliant in what he wrote he even wrote that the murder’s are human beings we

Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Friedrich, Germany in 1844, later died in 1900. Nietzsche literature and history philosophy was considered to be worst sophist. All moral philosophers have been soporific, misleading. In other words, do not believe in just anything a “God” tell you because there is no God. Nietzsche was a moral theorist as new moral theorist many try to adopt moral theory and add science aspects. But not consider idea of conscience in same way as former moral theorist have in the past. Being a moral theorist in regards to actually raises doubt that there is such thing as morality. There are two known moralities, Master and Slave morality. These moralities came based on what Nietzsche said, “to be a human is to be a beast, and tube a superior beast, a person must be able to attack, control, happiness, exploit the weak. All societies have a class and within the class, known as ruling caste. The ruling caste originated from barbarian caste in state of nature. Where violence and power is wanted greatly. The hire you are in the caste you are considered to have more power, or in Nietzsche case you have more knowledge. Having more knowledge is the only way a person can reach true happiness. Nietzsche created these steps to Astuteness moral castration. The steps consist of making virtue the goal, set up standards for the virtue, opponents are ungodly, suffering

Friedrich Nietzsche’s argument against Christian morality is heavily reliant on a history based (genealogical) argument. The nihilistic tendencies of Christianity are one source of Nietzsche’s antagonism. He uses nihilism and the resulting asceticism to argue heavily in favor of new and reevaluated values for the betterment of human life. Nietzsche’s argument uses history to contest the altruistic story of religion and pointedly examine the negative background of Christianity. This in turn creates a space to tear apart modern morality and promote the growth of Nietzsche’s hierarchical Roman morality. Nietzsche initially appears to have great face validity in his genealogical argument. However, closer analysis of his discussion provokes criticism

Storms, floods, thunder, lightning, etc. all of these things would explain that God was doing something. The God concept was a strong belief and it still is somewhat today. People in this world from the 5th century till the 17th century everything was about, came from and existed because of God.This is what Nietzsche knew that the God concept was import to know as well as should be the dominant way to think. Many people already believed in an all powerful Creator which is what they had been taught. Yes religion dominated the landscape as well as in everything people learned and was taught. No new concept had come along, the world was stuck in this daze of God in science, Agriculture, medicine, business, and law etc.This was what many people

Friedrich Nietzsche is a German philosopher known for his challenging ideas against common morality and his ideas commonly associate with anarchism. Nietzsche was born on 15 October 1844 in Röcken, Lützen, Prussia (currently Germany), where his father was a Lutheran priest. Nietzsche suffered from two terrible tragedies at a young age as his father passed away when he was only five years old and his younger brother also died only a year later. One year later, Nietzsche’s family moved to Naumberg and at the age of 14 Nietzsche earned a scholarship to the Pforta, a Lutheran boarding school known for academic excellence, near Naumberg. At Pforta Nietzsche excelled in Greek and Latin, but still did not show any signs of his radical philosophy

As a result of Nietzsche's support for his argument, Christianity does reject life, for it rejects master morality. Christianity rejects life overall because it does not allow people to grow as a human and to expand humanity in its best interest. This is through the following instances that it promotes hatred of the earth, slave morality, an inferior lifestyle, and finally self-denial. From all of these examples Nietzsche provides, Christianity is not in humanity's best interest. Christianity does not care about one's capability to succeed and to evolve in life. However, a person does, in fact, have the potential to do so. Nietzsche strongly believes in this, and clearly, continues to state the endless possibilities man has to offer towards

Should society trust a man who claimed to be Jesus, Alexander the Great among other deities and historical figures? Despite suffering from madness when claiming these identities, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche’s works inspire many historical leaders and present day scholars including Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini. A 19th century German philosopher, he followed the beliefs of atheism, moral skepticism, and relativism. Throughout his books he mocked Christianity while promoting his own beliefs of morality, man reaching its potential, and society’s killing of God (Mastin).

Friedrich Nietzsche, an extremely controversial thinker of his time, was an “outspoken critic of German nationalism, anti-Semitism, and religious dogmatism” (Kellner). Indubitably, Nietzsche has had a great impact on the improvement of twentieth century social thought. Key ideas from Nietzsche are included in the following: The Gay Science, On the Genealogy of Morality and Beyond Good and Evil. In the Gay Science, Nietzsche presents the famous image of the madman declaring “God is dead… and we have killed him”. Much of Nietzsche’s work problematizes Christianity and urges humanity to rethink the basis of morality. The artful self-stylization that may be implied by this is also suggested, and how to live without religious certainty. After the loss of religion as a guide and path to follow in his time, Nietzsche acknowledged the need for direction and understood that this could be possible by creating certain values for society to accept and follow.

Nietzsche is widely known as a critic of religion. In fact, he talks in depth about morality in regards to religion in his essays about the genealogy of morals. But the problem is not within religion itself or within morals. The problem is involved in the combination of the two to create society’s understanding of morality through a very religious lens. In fact, Nietzsche has criticism for almost any set of morals constructed by a group of individuals and meant to be applied to society as a whole. True morality, according to Nietzsche, requires a separation from these group dynamic views of morality- or at least a sincere look into where they originated and why they persist- and a movement towards a more introverted, and intrinsically personalized understanding of what morals mean in spite of the fact that “the normative force to which every member of society is exposed, in the form of obligations, codes of behavior, and other moral rules and guidelines, is disproportionally high” (Korfmacher 6).