Nietzsche's critique of religion is largely based on his critique of
Christianity.
Nietzsche says that in modern Europe, people are atheistic, even
though they don't realise it. People who say they are religious aren't
really and those who say they have moved on haven't actually moved on.
Certain people in society retain features of Christianity. For
example, socialists still believe in equality in all people. Others
still have pity for the poor and needy etc.
Nietzsche dislikes religion especially Christianity because it
encourages and promotes slave morality. Nietzsche says that we should
be striving towards master morality, but Christianity has the
completely opposite values to those of the master morality. For
example, religion wants us to be like slaves and give things up
instead of trying to be great.
He talks about a slave revolt in morality, which leads to the
dominance of slave values over master values. Christianity is that
slave revolt.
The problem for Nietzsche is the New Testament - the introduction of
Jesus. He thinks that linking the Old Testament with the New Testament
is very cheeky. They are two different books with complete different
ideas and so should not be linked together.
The Old Testament is full of power - Nietzsche likes that. But he
objects to the values of the New Testament that shouldn't be linked to
the Old Testament. They demote power.
He sees religion as intensely nihilistic - it's all about denying life
and being negative. Nietzsche feels that the New Testament is also
like that.
We have to go beyond this. If Christianity and Schopenhaur are based
on denying life ...
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...itique is that he views religion from
the outside, so doesn't this make it a one-sided story?
But obviously Nietzsche will think that his critique is one-sided. He
is a perspectivist. Why is a view from outside any less valid than a
view from inside?
Is the ladder of religious cruelty a complete account of religious
development. What about a sacrificing himself for humanity? This
doesn't get mentioned.
However we could say that Nietzsche rejects that because he obviously
doesn't believe in God and insofar as God is 'one of the suffering'.
This confirms Nietzsche's negative view of religion / Christianism.
Nietzsche said that religion shouldn't How can religion not be an
'end-in-itself' for religious believers?
A counter-argument to this would be to say that religion as an
instrument is not a religion.
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However, Nietzsche’s idea of the powerful forcing their will on common people resonates with me. It is something we see in our modern society, wealthy people seem to have a higher influence over the average American. Examples of powerful people controlling others are found in politics, economy, media, and religion. Common people are lead to think in certain ways that the powerful need them to. Nietzsche said that people will only be equal as long as they are equal in force and talent, people who have a higher social group are more influential in decisions because average people look to them for information. The thing I do not agree with Nietzsche on his view as Christianity as a weakness because religion is a main cause of people’s decision
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Nietzsche's style of writing was a deliberate stylistic choice meant to hide the meaning of his work and philosophy from those who would not be able to understand it, and through there misunderstanding would abuse it. This writing style was also meant to help support and give meaning to Nietzsche's arguments on the nature of language and how language is, at its root a metaphor describing an object that is disconnected from us. Nietzsche's work broke down language to its metaphorical roots and explored the nature of how our language is disconnected from the objective reality around us. Nietzsche uses the metaphorical roots of our language to show that words and language our fundamentally disconnected because of the subjective nature of language. Nietzsche shows these metaphorical roots by showing how simple words and phrases that we use in our everyday life are really disconnected or at least removed by the barrier of language. Language is a serious of metaphor's all describing how an object subjectively appears to the individual. No language can describe what it is like to "be" that object, nor properly describe what it is that makes the object what it is. All language can do is provide a vehicle through which man can communicate what he is subjectively experiencing and relate it via a metaphor to another individual who will only get a idea of what is being described rather than an actual concrete description.
The philosopher Nietzsche has been scrutinized for most of his work because he stood against the Christian faith. He believed that Christianity held people back from achieving a full life because it countered all the wants and needs of the human. He believed that slaves made up Christianity to replace the things that they could not receive. Sex, power and revenge were all out of range for a slaves so in return they made up Christianity to follow. Nietzsche’s greatest works however is what he describes as Übermensch or Superman. This “superman” is someone that has evolved even greater than any of today’s humans. He compares evolution from apes to humans and believes that the human isn’t done with evolution yet, instead is still growing and