Nietzsche’s antichristian ethics: Renaissance virtù and the project of reevaluation
Nietzsche’s antichristian ethics: Renaissance virtù and the project of reevaluation
In the opening sections of The Antichrist: A Curse on Christianity, Nietzsche provides a revealing summary not only on his concerns in this work but also on his understanding of his overall project. This is succinctly stated in s.3:
The Nietzsches Antichristian Ethics: problem I raise here is not what ought to succeed mankind in the sequence of species (the human being is a conclusion): but what type of human being one ought to breed, ought to will, as more valuable, more worthy of life, more certain of the future.
This more valuable type has existed often enough already: but as a lucky accident, as an exception, never as willed. He has rather been the most feared, he has hitherto been virtually the thing to be feared—and out of fear the reverse type has been willed, bred, achieved: the domestic animal, the herd animal, the sick animal man—the Christian....
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Owen, David
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24 January 2019
Owen, David
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Owen, David
(2019)
Nietzsche’s antichristian ethics: Renaissance virtù and the project of reevaluation.
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Conway, Daniel
(ed.)
Nietzsche and The Antichrist: Religion, Politics, and Culture in Late Modernity.
(Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy)
1st ed.
London.
Bloomsbury Academic, .
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In the opening sections of The Antichrist: A Curse on Christianity, Nietzsche provides a revealing summary not only on his concerns in this work but also on his understanding of his overall project. This is succinctly stated in s.3:
The Nietzsches Antichristian Ethics: problem I raise here is not what ought to succeed mankind in the sequence of species (the human being is a conclusion): but what type of human being one ought to breed, ought to will, as more valuable, more worthy of life, more certain of the future.
This more valuable type has existed often enough already: but as a lucky accident, as an exception, never as willed. He has rather been the most feared, he has hitherto been virtually the thing to be feared—and out of fear the reverse type has been willed, bred, achieved: the domestic animal, the herd animal, the sick animal man—the Christian....
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