Was he atheist or agnostic?
2007-04-07 06:34:09 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
He sounds athiest to me.
2007-04-07 06:34:31 · update #1
yeah, i know they aren't 'religions', i meant to say beliefs...
2007-04-07 06:39:13 · update #2
Nietzche actually feared nihilism, worrying that when Man had discovered everything there was to discover about the universe, he would go insane from staring at the dark oblivion, and destroy himself
Nietzche can best be described as an existentialist individualist. His existentialism is the reason that, in the lexicon of philosophy, he is usually studied in a line-up that involves Plato, Descartes, Hume, and Kant. He is also a champion of individualism, often cited (and criticized) for his fierce denouncing of the Christian system of ethics, which preaches submission to God and brotherly sacrifice.
2007-04-07 07:05:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
He was spiritual in nature. There is a common quote of his, "God is dead" that is taken out of context. The quote is spoken of by a man who believes in God, and is telling the non-believers why they can not find God. They mock him by asking, "what did God run away? Is he like a child you must find?" The "mad man" then goes on a rant saying that society killed God through its rationalization and sciences.
So in my opinion, Nietzche was a rationalist, but also one who paid considerable attention to the spiritual "superman" ideology of a person endowed with superior moral qualities.
2007-04-07 14:11:25 · answer #2 · answered by Julian 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Atheist. He didn't think much of the idea of "God".
"In Christianity neither morality nor religion has even a single point of contact with reality. Nothing but imaginary causes ("God," "soul," "ego," "spirit," "free will"—for that matter, "unfree will"), nothing but imaginary effects ("sin," "redemption," "grace," "punishment," "forgiveness of sins"). " (1)
"The concept of "God" invented as a counterconcept of life,—everything harmful, poisonous, slanderous, the whole hostility unto death against life synthesized in this concept in a gruesome unity! " (2)
2007-04-07 14:06:27 · answer #3 · answered by John 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He "believed" in Superman...LOL
Good luck with that!
Mr. Nietzsche was a genius. You're just gonna have to get over his sarcasm and only pay attention to his genius.
2007-04-07 14:09:51 · answer #4 · answered by Alex 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was not religious at all. He was a 'nihilist', but that's a philosophy rather than a religion. Essentially he was atheistic in his basic stance, but he would have referred to himself as nihilistic.
2007-04-07 13:47:14 · answer #5 · answered by choko_canyon 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lutheran (his father, Carl Ludwig, was a Lutheran pastor)
2007-04-07 13:42:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither atheism nor agnosticism is a religion. They are in fact the ABSENCE of religious belief.
Just so ya know.
2007-04-07 13:38:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
He was actually called a "nihilist"..., literally meaning a "nothingist" lol.
2007-04-07 13:42:28 · answer #8 · answered by ♥austingirl♥ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why does it matter?
2007-04-07 18:47:02 · answer #9 · answered by sunflowerdaisy94 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
protestant christian -uniquely a lutheran christian
2007-04-07 14:28:03 · answer #10 · answered by Sphinx 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋