Thank you for your response! Personally I do not believe that Christian morality leads men towards bitterness and nihilism. And judging by the final years of Nietzsche’s life, he seemed to have fallen into the same abyss he warned his readers about.
You may have read Nietzsche but you didn’t read him closely. Here’s a friendly rebuttal of the first part of what you wrote.
First, let me just say at the outset that Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens are intellectual midgets compared to Nietzsche, to say nothing of the fact that they are comparable to the antisemites of Nietzsche’s time, read “Islamophobes” today. Islamophobia is the new antisemitism, or didn’t you know? Nietzsche would have despised Harris and Hitchens for their selective outrage and he made fun of “atheists” whenever he could. That much should be clear to anyone who has read Nietzsche closely.
The main reason why you get Nietzsche wrong is because you’re overly focused on weakness. What Nietzsche opposes in GM is resentment, not weakness. What he is against is the family of reactive feelings that invented Christian morality and what he seethes against is the fact that this morality has been sold to Western civilization as morality itself, as if no other morality had any standing or credibility.
The real target of his hatred in GM is not the weak but the priests. The priests are not even weak. They are resentful and full of concealed hatred. The priests are able eventually to subdue even the masters and to get them to subscribe to their new subversive morality which allows them to become masters. His real target is Christian morality, not weakness.
Also, Nietzsche does not have “apathy for humankind.” His entire philosophical corpus is intended to save mankind from the snares of a diseased way of thinking and to offer man a way out of nihilistic despair and a life lived in bitterness and regret.
Thank you for your response! Personally I do not believe that Christian morality leads men towards bitterness and nihilism. And judging by the final years of Nietzsche’s life, he seemed to have fallen into the same abyss he warned his readers about.
You may have read Nietzsche but you didn’t read him closely. Here’s a friendly rebuttal of the first part of what you wrote.
First, let me just say at the outset that Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens are intellectual midgets compared to Nietzsche, to say nothing of the fact that they are comparable to the antisemites of Nietzsche’s time, read “Islamophobes” today. Islamophobia is the new antisemitism, or didn’t you know? Nietzsche would have despised Harris and Hitchens for their selective outrage and he made fun of “atheists” whenever he could. That much should be clear to anyone who has read Nietzsche closely.
The main reason why you get Nietzsche wrong is because you’re overly focused on weakness. What Nietzsche opposes in GM is resentment, not weakness. What he is against is the family of reactive feelings that invented Christian morality and what he seethes against is the fact that this morality has been sold to Western civilization as morality itself, as if no other morality had any standing or credibility.
The real target of his hatred in GM is not the weak but the priests. The priests are not even weak. They are resentful and full of concealed hatred. The priests are able eventually to subdue even the masters and to get them to subscribe to their new subversive morality which allows them to become masters. His real target is Christian morality, not weakness.
Also, Nietzsche does not have “apathy for humankind.” His entire philosophical corpus is intended to save mankind from the snares of a diseased way of thinking and to offer man a way out of nihilistic despair and a life lived in bitterness and regret.
I’ll leave it there for now.