Nietzsche & Christianity


God is dead, And we have killed him…”: means that the moral system of Christianity is no longer tenable. It cannot provide us with personal happiness. He is one of the first philosopher to critically dismantle Christianity as evil for its harmful effects on individuals. Christian love is an outcome of fear. This is weakness. Out of Christianity should emerge a new noble or superman that guides society and rules it for himself alone. Superman’s lust for power is the new system of morality. Therefore morality and God are both dead. Lust for power itself could be seen as and outcome of fear however according to Russell. He has a nihilistic belief: that being has no meaning. Without a God the world is a morally ambivalent and unpleasant place. Nietszche, however, is not pessimistic about the human condition.

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