Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche.
Thoughts on chapter 2.
Nietzsche is Dead!
First, as for Christianity. Nietzsche brings up some of the problems with religion, I would argue that he didn’t know true religion. What Nietzsche is looking at is the smorgasbord of broken religions, not the real deal. I don’t believe he actually studies to know real Christianity. This to say that Christianity is sacrifice, while there’s truth there, his perspective of what should be sacrificed is wrong.
It is real or true religion that allows Nietzsche to express his opinion, it is the real or true freedom that is brought about by true religion. It is only true religion that fully embraces logic and science. All else is make believe.
He assumes that knowledge is spontaneous or just happens, and that philosophers, through their truth to power, are expressing that which is only their truth. Because there is no real truth.
However, I would counter that there is a stream of wisdom or knowledge that has been flowing from before the beginning of time till now, and will continue to flow till the end of time. All one has to do is open up to the book of Proverbs and see that what was reasonable four thousand years ago is still just as fresh and true today. And all we have to do is tap into that stream. Of course the “true” philosophers don’t just tap into the stream, they swim in it.
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