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If you think Nietzsche's writing are representative, then we've never been "close to God". > Secularism is a recent thing. Sokrates and Buddha would like a wo
by tgv 2y ago
If you think Nietzsche's writing are representative, then we've never been "close to God".
> Secularism is a recent thing.
Sokrates and Buddha would like a word.
- keiferski 2y agoThe death of God idea by Nietzsche is not about a real being actually dying. It is about the concept losing influence on society and what that means for things like ethics. Socrates and Buddha were 2,500 years ago and I don’t think I’d describe them as being secularists. Secularism is something that came out of the Enlightenment, in the West at least. It is absolutely a recent thing for the purposes of the discussion.
- fdfgyu 2y agoTo describe Buddha as a secularist would be projecting our modern values onto a man 2500 years ago. Reincarnation, the soul, karma, etc aren't exactly compatible with materialistic secularism.