‘What sets us apart is not that we recognize no God, either in history or behind nature - but that we find that which has been revered as God not ‘godlike’ but pitiable, absurd, harmful, not merely an error but a crime against life. . . . we deny God as God…’ - The Anti-Christ, 47.
In short, I have looked many places and have often found that which the people call ‘God’. But in every case I also found an error, a lie, an illusion.
Reading Nietzche on drugs can be misleading.
He’s fundamentally an eastern mythic, which does sort of suggest as a Spinozian/Taoist divinity to things.
All that aside though, the attacks on Christianity are great.
You don’t need to be on drugs to misread Nietzsche. You just need a strong priestly instinct.
I will assume you meant 'eastern mystic’.
Looking to thefreedictionary.com
Please tell my if this is a poor definition. Because it seems to me that central to the psychology of the mystic is the belief in another, ‘real’ world in addition to reality. I cannot think of anyone who denies such a world any more vigorously than Nietzsche (in particular see Ecce Homo (Why I am a Destiny) and Twilight of the Idols (How the ‘Real World’ at last Became a Myth).
Not much to set aside, really…
Impious,
Alright…
Well… what I meant was to make up a word that combined both, but I’ll roll with this.
Nietzsche did not like the ‘rest’ of the east, and so tried to forge a new path in the west using cyclical time. I think we can agree with that right? “Nevermind all the dharmic origins, let’s just just rip into Christianity” was sort of what I got out of my admittedly shortened readings of him.
So here is question i wouldn’t mind asking you:
How is it you can have eternal recurrence within a purely physical paradigm?
To me, Nietzsche attacks the religious on socio-psychological grounds – which is fine, as that is where religion exists, but his little tricks do not (in my mind) explain how eternal recurrence is possible within a purely physical world. It’s sort of entropy breakdown… or parapsychological string theory dimensions at that point.
Then again… he didn’t have science to speak of, and didn’t realize he was talking out of his ass, though I have a feeling he did know.
There are several aspects of the Eternal Return, and the non-physical is not presupposed by any of them. One is purely mechanical and hard to accept considering scientific knowledge gained after Nietzsche’s death. Another is social. The third is personal. The latter two bare a complex relationship to each other.
Call me Zarathustra 