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Anti-Nietzsche : A Critique of Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche’s irrational doctrines have contributed to the emergence of self-destructive extremism on both the right and left ends of the political spectrum. The realization of his Übermensch ideal is not about achieving greatness as an individual but rather about greatness as a collective whole, specifically as a European empire. His philosophy stands in stark contrast to genuine conservatism, which is rooted in Christian principles. Keywords: conservatism, perspectivism, traditionalism, New Right, identitarian, postmodernism, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Heraclitus, extremism, antisemitism, will to power, logos, Christianity.

FAREWELL DEAR FRITZ: a tribute to Friedrich Nietzsche

IGDS eBooks, 2025

This book is about two diametrically opposed approaches to the truth--introspection and extrospection. Introspection was the mature approach of the famous philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. While this approach led to profound insights into his personal psychology, it prevented him from reaching his goal of revaluing all societal values, and it proved so traumatic that it caused the great thinker to lose his sanity. This high-risk, low-reward approach is contrasted with one in which truth is sought through an exploration of the outside world--namely the dynamic life-system, or strategic logos--enabling, among many other things, an understanding of the way societal values are formulated. In one of his last books "Nietzsche contra Wagner" (1888/1895), Nietzsche wrote about Wagner and himself that: "we are antipodes". The same could be said of Nietzsche and me. Yet this difference does not diminish the warmth of feeling I have for Fritz (as he was known to family and close friends), nor the immense respect I have for his dangerous and painful odyssey in search of the truth.

NIETZSCHE: PROPHET OF DOOM NIETZSCHE

demythologizing Life of Jesus Critically Examined" 3 and it had a big impact on him. Early on he considered himself devout, he was even called "little preacher" when he was young, but eventually, he would deny the faith, though at first not publically. 4

Nietzsche\u27s Revaluation of All Values

2014

This dissertation looks at the details of Friedrich Nietzsche\u27s concept of the revaluation of all values. The dissertation will look at the idea in several ways to elucidate the depth and complexity of the idea. First, it will be looked at through its evolution, as it began as an idea early in Nietzsche\u27s career and reached its full complexity at the end of his career with the planned publication of his Revaluation of All Values, just before the onset of his madness. Several questions will be explored: What is the nature of the revaluator who is supposed to be instrumental in the process of revaluation? What will the values after the revaluation be like (a rebirth of ancient values or creation of entirely new values)? What will be the scope of the revaluation? And what is the relation of other major ideas of Nietzsche\u27s (will to power, eternal return, overman, and amor fati) to the revaluation? Different answers to these questions will be explored. Ultimately, the conclusio...

Tabea Bertrams, Friedrich Nietzsche and the humanity of humankind

Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most widely received philosophical thinkers of all time. Over a century after his death the publications concerned with his work are countless and they are being published not only by philosophers, but also by sociologists, pedagogues and certainly theologians. The variety of attempts to interpret Nietzsche's work is understandable considering his statement: 'Jeder tiefe Denker fürchtet mehr das Verstanden-werden, als das Missverstanden-werden' (Nietzsche, 1999, vol. 5, p. 234). It seems, that Nietzsche was indeed very afraid of being understood. He mostly presented his ideas in metaphors or allegories which lack a straight line of reasoning. This leads to the difficulty in outlining the main arguments in Nietzsche's thinking. On the other hand it is exactly this particular art of writing that has fascinated readers throughout the decades. Reading Nietzsche leaves the reader with fascination and confusion at the same time (Van Tongeren, 1989). The reason is, on the one hand, the progress of Nietzsche's thoughts, and on the other, the inconsistencies inherent in his argument. Neither these inconsistencies nor Nietzsche's own seeming wish of being misunderstood have stopped academic attempts to understand Nietzsche's way of thinking. Christian theology, being no exception here, has adopted a critical but yet receptive attitude throughout the years regarding the analysis of Nietzsche's religious criticism. The history of Nietzsche's reception within theology comprises a range of possible interpretations (Köster, 1981, p. 82). However, the endeavour to take Nietzsche's criticism seriously and to take it as an opportunity to scrutinize religious positions can be seen as a common ground in contemporary theological publications. Nevertheless the discipline of practical theology has not started a serious discussion of Nietzsche's work yet. In the following it shall be demonstrated how Nietzsche's religious criticism and his Abstract: Since Friedrich Nietzsche's death in 1900, the publications concerned with his work are countless. Theology made various attempts to interpret Nietzsche's religious criticism and to rebut his arguments. The article points out that Christian theology should rather focus on Nietzsche's critique than on the defense of its own posits, because in Nietzsche's religious criticism a demand for an authentic anthropological self-fulfillment becomes recognisable that represents a task for modern theology. The theological discipline of religious education focuses on the human being and its self-fulfillment in a religious perspective. Therefore it combines pedagogical and theological questions. With this argument in mind, it shall be outlined how the analysis of Nietzsche's work is a valuable contribution in the pursuit of the religious question what it means to be human. It can be illustrated that the field of religious education has to reinforce its endavour to take religious criticism such as Nietzsche's seriously. Nietzsche's religious criticism reminds theology to focus on the connection between human existence and its analysis of life. The theological emphasis on transcendence as an indispensable part of human life must not lead to a the religious perspective of life that is no longer connected to earthly conditions. Religious Education has to strengthen the nexus between a culture of faith and the contemporary conditions human life is situated in.