Nietzsche, lanticristo

How the Greeks and Romans were far ahead, in most ways, of the late 20th-early 21st century culture of western civilization. What brought the scientific world of the Romans to an end more than anything else? Then it brought us the Crusades, burnings at the stake, witch hunts, and all kinds of horrendous BS. Nietzsche already had that idea, and he blames the Christians for the descent of humanity from the high-minded Mediterranean of antiquity to the nihilism of Medieval Europe.

The discoveries in science, the evolution of art and culture, the improvement of humankind as a whole was severely slowed with the rise of Christianity, especially the writings of the liar, Paul. And the Renaissance? This rebirth of art and culture was the rediscovery and translation of the Greeks and Romans. It was a beautiful ballast against the proliferation of the Christian sect.

The main idea here is that Christianity, and all religions that promise a wonderful afterlife, discounts real life, the living world of humans. If the main goal is not of this world, then why aspire to be great here? Everyone can be great in the afterlife. If all souls are equal and can get to heaven, then a great person is no better than a weak or foolish person. Faith is the enemy of reason. Salvation from without is the enemy of salvation from within.

View 2 comments. However, if it has sparked your curiosity-if you have always been a bit suspicious about the fact that all religion was created by man and not God-this book IS for you. Nietzsche suggests that religion specifically Christianity promotes ignorance and arrogance, that "faith vetoes science" while the intellectual mind is frowned upon, and that the creators of our religiou "Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.

Nietzsche suggests that religion specifically Christianity promotes ignorance and arrogance, that "faith vetoes science" while the intellectual mind is frowned upon, and that the creators of our religious texts came up with their own agenda, ignoring the intentions and life of Christ. Perhaps it is a bit strange that Paul started the New Testament decades after the death of Jesus.

Why do we take the dreams of people we've never met for fact? Why does the Pope dress the way he does? I invite you to open your mind and challenge yourself. The next time the bible toting doorknockers come through your neighborhood, invite them in and tell them about the book you're reading called 'Anti-Christ' and see where the conversation leads. I personally enjoyed this book very much, but I know my mother-in-law will pray for me when she reads this review.

May 23, Shradhanjali Lama rated it it was amazing Shelves: reviewed , ungodliness , all-time-favorite , philosophy , own. I Give this one a 5 star based not merely on his merits of writing but because of his radical ideas. I will not, however, review the book.

I am just flabbergasted at his ideas and how his psyche worked. I loved this book not just because I am an atheist but because some of the points that he makes are actually true.

Aug 05, Marc rated it it was ok Shelves: philosophy , religion. Read in Dutch. Many clever insights that have become common place in the meantime. Yet in his criticism on religion Nietzsche focusses on secondary issues. Second, this whole book seems like an angry person screaming right into your face.

I feel like he kinda could do better. Not to mention his some kind of a superiority complex. Skipping to the part where he thinks Jesus was the only true christian. Feb 04, Muhammad Arqum rated it it was amazing. Nietzsche shows no mercy! Nietzsche takes no prisoners! He goes all cut throat, guns blazing, shrapnel flying all bad ass against Christianity and the Christian God.

Nietzsche is what the modern day junior-level atheists like Dawkins and what not want to be like but obviously can't, for they lack the "madness" Nietzsche had! Oh when that sinks in it gives you shudders. Religion requires reformers every now and then. The world requires people like Nietzsche to pull their shit together.

His a Phew! His anxiety was due to the fact that since "God has died", people will lose their will to live and consequently their "will to power" and will drown into nothingness and nihilism, therefor the world requires a paradigm shift where we move from the low and the petty to forming our own morals being the Ubermensch that we are! His philosophical system being as eccentric and revolutionary as it is, poses so many questions to theologians and I surmise quite confidently that Iqbal's Reconstruction's impetus lies deep and profound in Nietzsche's criticism of religion and theology.

Yes it's abhorrent how he goes about doing his business, but it indeed shows how he had been wronged by Christianity. You can feel his pain and you can see through him. Nietzsche's Over-Man cannot be fostered in a Christian Culture, that's very obvious, hence he destroys Christianity and the Christian God.

Christianity says NO to life and everything that is high and life-full therefor rendering human beings as a herd of mere passive, servile idiots. It is very interesting to find out his opinions about Islam. That puts into perspective Iqbal's quotes about him that "There are very few who have understood Nietzsche's madness" and "while his mind rejected God, his heart believed". It is extraordinary how Nietsche's Ubermensch is so strikingly similar to Iqbal's "Mard e momin" and utterly different at the same time.

This study had been such a revelation to me personally. It is once you go beyond his apparent rancor and resentment that you start to "see" what he actually means. He was an eccentric both with his philosophy and his uber-bad-ass mustache but he was what the world requires every now and then.

People like Nietzcshe are a blessing in disguise. One just needs to see things a little differently. But only "few" shall find that out. Nietzsche's "free souls" and "his readers" and his "over-men" are just like Iqbal's people from his "Halqa e sukhan" and his "Banda e hur" and his "mard e momin" and "sahib e khudi".

I understand more how "musalman ko musalman kerdia toofane maghrib ne"! Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. First the day after tomorrow must come for me. Some men are born posthumously. Dec 30, Sidharth Vardhan rated it liked it Shelves: philosphy , 4-europe , non-fiction , myth-religion. I had a liberal access to internet only when I was already in college. And I developed a very quick obsession for Wikipedia and Wikiquote surfing.

When I tumbled about Nietzsche's Wikiquote fan, I became a fan. But reading 'beyond good and evil' was a disappointment. All the good parts of it I had already read on his Wikiquote experience. It is as if his best always comes in aphorisms - you read Wikiquote, you can say you have read Nietzsche, well the good parts.

I felt same thing with Oscar Wi I had a liberal access to internet only when I was already in college. I felt same thing with Oscar Wilde's plays but Wilde had non-aphorism beauty in his in non-dramtic writing. There are lots of great quotes in it, but I had already read them. They might be more of a revelation to other readers. Much of his criticism of Christianity makes sense but he seems to want to correct it by forcing opposite values on society which is where he fails.

It is a popular adage that philosophers are better at asking questions than answering them. Goes for Nietzsche too. Moreover he can often be inconsistent. At one point he says Christianity has taken away virality of life, on other hand, he likes Buddhism for Nirvana - which talks about freeing a person from life itself for sake of freeing humanity from pain and suffering. Buddhism, like Christianity and other religions, is born of pessimism, of idea that life is a curse because of suffering that is attached to it.

And moreover, Nietzsche himself is guilty of this view when he says the way to happiness is asceticism which btw is again contradicting his earlier idea that we should be fighting wars because peace is so pathetic. Ascetiicism preached by Indian religions has same fault as Christian church's preaching - it goes against humanity's basic instincts which only wants to fill it's time with sex, sleep and food.

He hates Christian priests for fooling people. And praises Manu for suggesting a society where a few clever and strong folks would fool masses of lesser mortals.

Manu and other Hindu priests were no different from Christian priests talked about 'sin' just as much as Christian priests. Of course, he accuses Christian priests for deceit and for holding power and than turns around and says power is a good thing. And there is again that bad taste that ones gets from his antisemitism and misgony.

Calling Christians and priests 'Jews' and 'women' is his go to insults. Mar 03, Thrasymachus rated it it was ok Shelves: owned , philosophy. Paul becomes the villain of history, and Jesus is somehow transfigured into a prototype for Camus' "Stranger". Oct 05, Nemo added it. Psychoanalyzing Nietzsche Nietzsche seems to have a life-long obsession with Christianity, which he blames for the subversion of all noble values, and the corruption of the Western civilization.

Underneath the facade of "noble" contempt for Christianity, however, I suspect Nietzsche is really blaming it for his own unhappiness. He sounds as if he would be happier with any other belief system, Darwinism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Epicureanism, Paganism, anything but Christianity, and yet it was Christia Psychoanalyzing Nietzsche Nietzsche seems to have a life-long obsession with Christianity, which he blames for the subversion of all noble values, and the corruption of the Western civilization.

He sounds as if he would be happier with any other belief system, Darwinism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Epicureanism, Paganism, anything but Christianity, and yet it was Christianity he was constantly engaged with. If Christianity was really as ignoble and wretched as he would have his readers believe, why didn't he cast it aside as dung, and spend more time writing about what constitutes true value? His power doesn't extend to building value system from the ground up, without borrowing from existing value systems.

As a self-proclaimed psychologist, Nietzsche couldn't heal himself: he spent his life trying to deconstruct the cause of his own misery, but couldn't find any cure to deliver himself, let alone the world, from it.

For that, I pity him. The Antichrist is a comprehensive criticism of Christianity, in that all the criticisms I've read so far can be found here, historical, psychological and sociological. For example, Paul perverted the Gospel, Christianity destroyed the classical world, the Judeo-Christian religion was invented by the priestly class to control the masses, etc, etc.

Nietzsche provides no evidence whatsoever to support his various assertions -- and there are many, nor does he give any reasons as to why his interpretations of historical events and texts are more worthy of acceptance than the alternatives. One gets the impression that he is not really interested in the "truth" as he claims--come to think of it, I'm not even sure what he means by "truth". Includes three works, all dating from Nietzsche's last lucid months, that aim show him at his most stimulating and controversial: the portentous utterances of the prophet together with the ill-defined figure of the Ubermensch are forsaken, as wit, exuberance and dazzling insights predominate.

The Antichrist' is Friedrich Nietzsche's great masterpiece, wherein Nietzsche attacks Christianity as a blight on humanity. This classic is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand Nietzsche and his place within the history of philosophy. Nietzsche claimed that to understand this philosophy, the reader should be above politics and nationalism.

Also, the usefulness or harmfulness of truth should not be a concern. Provocative and controversial, these two powerful works were written by Friedrich Nietzsche at the height of his powers as a polemicist. Twilight of the Idols attacks the Platonic legacy in Western philosophy, opposing all universal principles of morality.

Forse mi sfugge qualcosa. Io ho trovato molto affine a me stesso questo notare il piccolo dettaglio, la cosa che sfugge agli altri, apparentemente inutile. Ma evidentemente ci sono persone disturbate dalle Piccole Cose, la citazione della farfalla deve aver toccato qualche nervo scoperto. Che a voi reazionari tu, roberto, peucezio e ADV piacciono solo le megasuperstrutture — Chiesa, mercato globale, Whatsapp, Stato, banche, automobili, Diritti Universali, satelliti, geometri….

La roba piccola e viva tipo lombrichi, sanfredianini, farfalle, dialetti, pedoni, Session non vi piace. Due megasuperstrutture nella storia mi piacciono. Che se fossero solo le cose piccole che hanno al loro interno, li amerei. Tranne quella naturale, solo quella umana. Grazie al codice stradale io so che se passo col rosso o guido ubriaco sono un asociale pericoloso, e non ho scuse: non posso dire che non lo spavo, se ho preso la patente e sostenuto un esame di guida.

Aumentando la mia consapevolezza, codice della strada e scienza diminuiscono entrambi la mia innocenza. La legge mica implica la conoscenza: ti obbliga a schierati, a prendere posizione dunque ad essere consapevole. Se non avessi. Comune, ma sempre un mercato. Hanno voluto la bicicletta, e ora pedalano. Le emissioni di CO2 ringraziano. Ultimo paese al mondo ad avere messo in esercizio una centrale nucleare la settimana scorsa: il Bangla Desh. Ultimo paese UE ad avere annunciato la scelta di cominciare a installare centrali nucleari, sempre la settimana scorsa: la Polonia.

Poi magari Wegener poteva essere antipatico, o avere strane idee politiche, o aver sbagliato in parte, o aver avuto la erre moscia che per un tedesco sarebbe interessante. E magari fatta la sua teoria, non proponeva nulla. Ma qui? Sono animali vendicativi. Un dato in particolare taglia la testa al toro:. A me queste storie mi lasciamo perplesso. Se poi non te li fai vuol dire che non sai fare ad essere vegano. Non ritengo sia necessario castigarsi troppo.

Certo, come no. Diversi fra loro hanno sicuramente il nutrizionista personale. Penso a Miley Cyrus, per esempio. O il suo fidanzato Liam Hemsworth. Lo stesso vale per il pesce, le uova, i latticini, ecc. Ai bambini, invece, la mancanza di questa vitamina causa danni neurologici anche irreversibili. Non tutti gli allevamenti sono uguali, e lavorano nello stesso modo. Non tutte le carni, i pesci, le uova, ecc. Schifezze immangiabili. Carenze garantite. Poi dei personaggi loschi, tipo santoni… Non vorrei che la tua amica fosse restata intrappolata in una rete del genere.

E di questi non se ne parla abbastanza. Gandhi invece lo rispetto. Ma ci sono altri fattori ancora che portano nella stessa direzione. Se vai sul sito di veganzetta magari capisci meglio. La presunta questione etica non ha senso. Sono forse animali poco etici? Se un intensivo migliore comportasse una diminuizione del carneo , che problema ci sarebbe? Credevo che le scarpe non di plastica fossero solo un lusso per pochi stravaganti ricchi, davvero esistono ancora scarpe di cuoio?

Vale anche per tutta la pelletteria. Poi oh, a me per accontentarmi basta un piatto di spaghetti al pomodoro o una pizza marinara odio i formaggi! Ma la mia collega estremista era finita proprio in una specie di setta, di cui si era parlato, tempo dopo, anche al telegiornale. Non stupisce che nei ristoranti vegani si mangi male, di solito.

E fa capire in che mondo viviamo…. Boh, io ci sono stato un paio di volte e ho mangiato benissimo. Poi, ripeto, sono onnivoro oggi ho mangiato salsiccia, non avrei problemi a mangiare cavallette. Patologico… Se vai in pizzeria mangi la pizza, se vai al mc donald mangi solo panini. A uno gli pare di andare in un posto dove sono specializzati nel cucinare bene? Non vorrei tirarmi contro tutta la categoria dei ristoratori.

Scherzi a parte, non so dove tu viva, ma di solito nella maggior parte dei posti ci sono alcuni ristoranti pessimo, una maggiornaza di mediocri e pochi buoni o molto buoni. Servono per raffreddare, non riscaldare. Per questo non stupisce che nei ristoranti vegani il cibo sia, di solito, il contrario della gioia di vivere.

Come tu stesso dicevi, con altre parole. La pasta e fagioli si fa con un soffritto di lardo, e a volte anche di prosciutto. Alcuni cuochi mettono anche un paio di uova. Oddio, a Roma in effetti ho sempre mangiato bene, ma non ti fanno lo scontrino neanche se li minacci con la pistola. In genere quando sono nella mia zona so dove andare per mangiare decentemente o bene.

E in quel caso si guardano le recensioni o si chiede consiglio ai locali. Si lo so, a Reggio Emilia fa un freddo cane. Roberto Al massimo potrei passare per San Marino, in effetti ci sono passato vicino poco tempo fa. Proprio come fanno tutte le altre creature. Che infatti non ha senso. Grazie ADV, come vedi , anche tu sei un reazionario, basta cercare bene, che ti tiri merda addosso da solo.

Certo che possono soffrire. Il dolore serve alla sopravvivenza. Se non ricordo male, pure Leopardi diceva che se gli uomini facessero causa comune…. Interesse comune a non mangiare il vitello nello scenario allevamento intensivo. E poi il pellame per le scarpe. Tutto questo in presenza di aria. Interrare il letame creerebbe asfissia e di conseguenza impedirebbe tutto il processo di cui sopra. In questo caso avresti lo scenario vitello libero in natura.

Io nel mio modesto orticello non ho mai usato il concime, e mi limito ad arieggiare il terreno e a poche altre cure. Tutte le idee sono una creazione solo e soltanto umana. Se non la si fa periodicamente partorire, il latte come lo produce? M se si devono sfamare sette miliardi di esseri umani la vedo dura, fare a meno degli allevamenti intensivi. Il paternalismo non lo sopporto. Fanno degli studi.

Ho provato a suggerire qualche articolo, ma mi torna indietro soltanto folklorismo. A parte Ros. E quelli degli insetti. Ma almeno argomenta qualcosa di sensato. Io invece sono diventato allergico alle fesserie, ultimamente. E tu certo non mi aiuti a non starnutire, anzi. Non avete capito la strategia che attuano non solo loro.

E che cosa gli vuoi dire? Ah, ah! Until now, there has been no book that attempts to account with philosophical precision for the multiple themes addressed in this difficult and complex work. This is a most welcome volume that brings to bear much needed critical attention on one of Nietzsche's most important texts from his fertile late period.

To illuminate this most provocative of texts Daniel Conway has assembled some of the finest commentators and scholars currently writing on Nietzsche today. The result is an incredibly rich and highly instructive set of well-researched and lucidly written essays that will engage readers across the humanities, including in philosophy, the history of ideas, literary studies, and German studies. Daniel W. Conway has assembled a treasure trove of stunningly brilliant essays, penned by the very best Nietzsche scholars worldwide.

Altogether, the contributors lend Nietzsche's The Antichrist the attention it is woefully due but has heretofore somehow missed. Philosophers, political theorists, religious scholars, scientists, ethicists-readers of many sorts! Daniel Conway's collection is a valuable addition to the philosophical study of Nietzsche's critique of modernity. Go to this book on Bloomsbury Collections. For information on how we process your data, read our Privacy Policy.

You have successfully signed up to our Philosophy. Please check your email to confirm your email address. Your School account is not valid for the United States site. You have been logged out of your account. Sarah J. Susanna Clarke. Carol Anderson. Miriam Toews. Brigid Kemmerer. Mark Kurlansky. Samantha Shannon. Sign in Create an account. I do…. Though he strongly critiques Christianity many of the reasons he gives for doing so lack solid evidence even more so than usual. In the first half, Nietzsche begins by expressing his hatred for modernity.

The modern man has reached a state of apathy towards life.