The Problem with Nietzsche
There is nothing in Nihilism other than ridicule, isolation, and envy. Those traits just so happen to be the opposites of Faith, Hope, and Love, the theological virtues of Christianity.
As I teach in my Church History courses, and as Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa preached to the pontifical household last week, Nietzsche’s philosophy paved the way for the “politics of atheism,” that is Nazism and Socialism. Think about it. What good came of those systems that had no foundation in a Supreme Being, Divine Providence, or…ahh…God? Quite simply: nothing!
Let us pray for nations, including our own, that are perilously close to walking the path of atheism.
God Bless.
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N did not advocate nihilism. Read his works again, or don’t claim to be an authority.
No authority was claimed other than that earned by my reading, study, and teaching of Church History. I am only a novice philosopher, and am not thoroughly acquainted with all the works of any given philosopher. Maybe I was not clear in my assertion: Nietzsche’s philosophy was a precursor, one step along the way, to Nihilism. If “God is dead!,” in its true context, is not Nihilistic, then not much else is.
anonymous was correct, Nietzsche himself said that it was a shame that his thoughts towards jews were not necessarily anti-semetic but he used the jews as an example for most if not all theists. he also was furious when the nazis got a hold of his works and used them as a guide to promote their idea.
but this also shows the harm that a philosophy like Niezsche’s can have. Niezsche does state that “God is dead,” if only he had read Fyodor Dostoyevsky he would know that “without God, everything is permissable” for there would be not absolute moral truth, there would be no truth at all, making nothing right and nothing wrong.
after Niezsche there was a psychologist/philosopher by the name of Sigmund Freud who also was an atheist and he wondered why ‘if man has become god (via technology) then why is man so discontent?’ he was one step away from St. Augustine’s “our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee”
Peace and God bless,
Matt
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