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He wrote criticisms of just about every major western belief system - if you take into account his larger body of work, saying he was anti-this or anti-that jus
by alexophile 16y ago
He wrote criticisms of just about every major western belief system - if you take into account his larger body of work, saying he was anti-this or anti-that just seems disingenuous. Much of what he wrote was criticism for its own sake because that's what leads to progress.
He wanted his critiques to hit hard; he wanted to be subversive. My reading, at least, is that he wanted to teach people to be critical of highly-regarded cultural norms and morals and his writings are essentially case-studies in exactly that.
- yters 16y agoHe thought Judaism and Christianity kept the ubermensch down with their weakness (ironically). That's pretty clear.
- joe_the_user 16y agoHe indeed had wide-ranging perspective but I think the one thing you can say is he was anti-Christian. He even said a few good things about Christ but anything positive was along the lines that the Christians got him wrong.