Damus
jimmysong · 3w
Nietzsche and Marx are the two atheists who seem like they sprung out of nowhere, but in fact, they had their intellectual predecessors in the Enlightenment: Rousseau and Sade. The rotten fruit of th...
Jeremy profile picture
You have misread Nietzsche (if you have read him at all) if you think him an atheist. He argues that God/s are a constructions but not about the existence of metaphysical beings/realms, at least that I have encountered… but I have also only read a few of his works and… in English at that.

When he pronounced “God is dead” he meant “we killed him” not he does not exist nor that we do not need him.

Nietzsche battles with what that means and tries to map the void that is left and how we might move forward now that it exists…

I’m not sure why people blame philosophers for playing with ideas… Neitzsche diagnosed the problems pretty frikin well if you ask me… and maybe he gets so much grief because he described so well what would happen with the death of God.

5❤️4🎯1🚀1
jostric · 3w
🎯 well said. Neitzshe predicted the rise of Marxism as a result of western culture moving away from god and using inferior substitute.
Hide&Seek · 3w
I disagree, he definitely condamned metaphysics as the fantasy of suffering people trying to escape this world. He calls it afterworlds, or backworlds, and there's a chapter about it in Zarathustra. He also took any belief and values to be a necessary human creation, but seemed ro claim that outgro...
StackinBeets · 1w
Nietzsche is often called a nihilist but only by those that haven't looked at his stuff properly and just parrot what others say.