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Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche.
Thoughts on chapter 2.
Nietzsche is Dead!
First, as for Christianity. Nietzsche brings up some of the problems with religion, I would argue that he didn’t know true religion. What Nietzsche is looking at is the smorgasbord of broken religions, not the real deal. I don’t believe he actually studies to know real Christianity. This to say that Christianity is sacrifice, while there’s truth there, his perspective of what should be sacrificed is wrong.
It is real or true religion that allows Nietzsche to express his opinion, it is the real or true freedom that is brought about by true religion. It is only true religion that fully embraces logic and science. All else is make believe.
He assumes that knowledge is spontaneous or just happens, and that philosophers, through their truth to power, are expressing that which is only their truth. Because there is no real truth.
However, I would counter that there is a stream of wisdom or knowledge that has been flowing from before the beginning of time till now, and will continue to flow till the end of time. All one has to do is open up to the book of Proverbs and see that what was reasonable four thousand years ago is still just as fresh and true today. And all we have to do is tap into that stream. Of course the “true” philosophers don’t just tap into the stream, they swim in it.
Thoughts on chapter 2.
Nietzsche is Dead!
First, as for Christianity. Nietzsche brings up some of the problems with religion, I would argue that he didn’t know true religion. What Nietzsche is looking at is the smorgasbord of broken religions, not the real deal. I don’t believe he actually studies to know real Christianity. This to say that Christianity is sacrifice, while there’s truth there, his perspective of what should be sacrificed is wrong.
It is real or true religion that allows Nietzsche to express his opinion, it is the real or true freedom that is brought about by true religion. It is only true religion that fully embraces logic and science. All else is make believe.
He assumes that knowledge is spontaneous or just happens, and that philosophers, through their truth to power, are expressing that which is only their truth. Because there is no real truth.
However, I would counter that there is a stream of wisdom or knowledge that has been flowing from before the beginning of time till now, and will continue to flow till the end of time. All one has to do is open up to the book of Proverbs and see that what was reasonable four thousand years ago is still just as fresh and true today. And all we have to do is tap into that stream. Of course the “true” philosophers don’t just tap into the stream, they swim in it.
quoting note1563…d5tpBeyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche.
Chapter 1, my thoughts pt2.
Nietzsche speaks of there being no will, but there has to be a will, the one absolute is that there is a devine will that has brought order out of chaos. It is that devine will that takes the atom and gives them meaning gives them purpose. It is then those atoms that come together and create the Universe that we live in, that works. A Universe that we can live in and have expectations.
To question the “I” or the “One” is to question that very will that brought Order out of Chaos, to make us. We are not billions of atoms with billions of souls. We are billions of atoms that were brought together, by the will of the devine, and placed one soul inside this small universe that is me, my body.
I remember a very simple or simplistic example that my father gave me when I was a child. He said, “When you are insulted, what do you feel?” My response was, “I hurt.” He said, “Yes, and that is a very real feeling.” “But” he said, “What is it that hurts?” “Is it your hand that hurts? Is it your foot that hurts? Is it your hair that hurts?” I responded, “No, It’s something inside me.” “Yes.” My father responded. “That is your soul. And when you die it is that soul that will go back to the devine creator to give an account of what it did.”
Thus, that soul is on loan, you might say, to this body of billions of atoms that will dissolve into its smallest parts, when it dies, but that soul, the “I”, will continue on.
It is that soul that hurts when I am insulted, and when I question the “I” or the “One”, to the statement “I think or One thinks”, I am questioning the creator, and I am questioning the reason behind why I think. The divine creator created us not only to think but so that we might also act. We have a certain amount of freedom or free will inside the bounds or limits of this greater Universe where we exists. And the purpose is that I might have joy, that I might come together with others like me and we can enjoy this world and all that is on it.
Whether that’s sky diving, or playing a game with my family, or just sitting and reading a good book. Each activity, especially when done with others, brings peace, contentment, and Joy. And that is why we are here and that is why the I exists.
RG.
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