Name: the antichrist
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Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
ISBN: 9781451591002

Type

Physical Book

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Publisher

Createspace

Year

2010

Language

English

Pages

108

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3x13.3x0.6 cm

Weight

0.12 kg.

ISBN

1451591004

ISBN13

9781451591002

Synopsis "the antichrist"

A refute of dogmatic Christianity, said best in his own words: "An action demanded by the instinct of life is proven correct by the pleasure that accompanies it; yet Christian dogma considers pleasure an objection. What could destroy us more quickly than working, thinking, and feeling without any inner necessity, without any deeply personal choice, without pleasure as an automaton of duty?" Nietzsche challenges the ethical-moral value system that the West has so deeply inherited from the belief and practice of Christianity, maintaining that the Christian emphasis on sympathy and pity multiplies the experience of suffering, which has weakened, rather than strengthened its followers. Readers are invited to embrace questions and topics, otherwise off-limits in mainstream society.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844-Weimar, August 25, 1900) was a German philosopher, poet, musician, and philologist, whose work has had a profound influence on contemporary global thought and Western culture.
Nietzsche wrote on topics as diverse as art, philology, music, history, religion, science, and tragedy. He critiqued culture, religion, and Western philosophy through the genealogy of the concepts that integrate them, based on the analysis of moral attitudes (positive and negative) towards life.
It is particularly notable the influence exerted on Nietzsche by the also German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, whom he considered his teacher, although he did not follow Schopenhauer's ideas dogmatically, and in many aspects, he diverged from his thought, even making a radical critique of his philosophical ideas.

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