Essay On Nietzsche Moral Values

Introduction

Nietzsche

One of the great influential philosophers in the history of ideas and a gifted stylist in his native German, Friedrich Nietzsche undertook a radical re-evaluation of established ideas and critique of moral values during his career. One of Nietzsche’s primary studies was on the problem of morality. However, he seems to contradict himself on the matter of values. Tansesi claims it is because of the different definitions of value - “values in a descriptive sense as that which is thought to be of value by an individual or by the members of a group, and values in a normative sense as that which is objectively of value” (652). Because of Nietzsche’s committed denial of any moral values, it would seem impossible to attribute

This means that there are “good, adequate, and sufficient reasons” to affirm the truth of Christian beliefs, and hence “ to know with our reason that Christianity is true” (The God who is There 202). Schaeffer declares “True Christian faith rests on [objective] content. In The God Who is There, Schaeffer states, “The true basis for faith is not the faith itself, but the work which Christ finished on the Cross.” (164). Faith is not merely a cognitive activity, because it also involves the whole man who trusts in, and is committed to, the promises of the God who is

“Schaeffer stressed the importance of worldview thinking and thus the necessity of Christians thinking of the Christian faith as a total world-and-life view” (Echeverria 243). Indeed, there exists to be a conflict of worldviews in contemporary culture, especially between Christian worldview and secularism in its varied forms. Thus, the Christians have a responsibility to work out the implications of this totality-view by articulating, communicating, defending, and justifying it to a given generation.

To conclude, Schaffer had the fifth principle be the Lordship of Jesus Christ. “True spirituality cannot be abstracted from truth at one end, nor from the whole man and the whole culture at the other. If there is a true spirituality, it must encompass all” ( The God who is There 177). Schaeffer declares, “ It is no use saying He is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the Lord of all things, if He is not the Lord of my whole unified intellectual life.”(Escape from Reason