“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
He was certainly right about LONELINESS being the price one too often must pay for cherishing and trying to enhance one's INDIVIDUALITY.
I disagree that Existenc is Suffering. It usually is for those who deny –– or fail to recognize –– TRUTH, but existential suffering becomes transformed into JOY once one accepts te Divin Authority of immortal TRUTH however unpleasant TRUTH my appear at any given time
In accepting the inevitable NEED to suffer, one ulimately CEASES to suffer.
Nietzche was hardly alone in his capacity to think deep thoughts. To wit:
Much Madness is divinest Sense –– To a discerning Eye –– Much Sense ––- the starkest Madness –– ’Tis the Majority In this, as all, prevail –– Assent –– and you are sane –– Demur –– you’re straightway dangerous –– And handled with a Chain ––
Nietzsche was trying to tackle human problems in a post-religion world... to prevent the inevitable destructive nihilism that results in the absence of a Benevolent Deity and give life a "reasonable" meaning/purpose to those who would deny Him.
The assumption that it WAS a "post-religion wold" is where he –– and most of the other postEnlughtement intellectuals –– got off the track and made his greatest mistake.
Many times the simple faith of a "pious old washerwoman" makes more sense and has more validity than the ponderous, laborious twisted rhetoric inxulged in by "Deep Thinkers' and "Great Philosophers"–– ESPECIALLY those who were determned to prove, or act-as-if God does not exist.
It's a "post-religion world" because the West has gone secular. That was happening around the time of Nietschze's intellectual awakening. The Church may still have some dubious 'moral authority' but it has precious little legal, constitutional power or influence.
He was certainly right about LONELINESS being the price one too often must pay for cherishing and trying to enhance one's INDIVIDUALITY.
ReplyDeleteI disagree that Existenc is Suffering. It usually is for those who deny –– or fail to recognize –– TRUTH, but existential suffering becomes transformed into JOY once one accepts te Divin Authority of immortal TRUTH however unpleasant TRUTH my appear at any given time
In accepting the inevitable NEED to suffer, one ulimately CEASES to suffer.
Nietzche was hardly alone in his capacity to think deep thoughts. To wit:
ReplyDeleteMuch Madness is divinest Sense ––
To a discerning Eye ––
Much Sense ––- the starkest Madness ––
’Tis the Majority
In this, as all, prevail ––
Assent –– and you are sane ––
Demur –– you’re straightway dangerous ––
And handled with a Chain ––
~ Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Nietzsche was trying to tackle human problems in a post-religion world... to prevent the inevitable destructive nihilism that results in the absence of a Benevolent Deity and give life a "reasonable" meaning/purpose to those who would deny Him.
ReplyDeleteThe assumption that it WAS a "post-religion wold" is where he –– and most of the other postEnlughtement intellectuals –– got off the track and made his greatest mistake.
ReplyDeleteMany times the simple faith of a "pious old washerwoman" makes more sense and has more validity than the ponderous, laborious twisted rhetoric inxulged in by "Deep Thinkers' and "Great Philosophers"–– ESPECIALLY those who were determned to prove, or act-as-if God does not exist.
It's a "post-religion world" because the West has gone secular. That was happening around the time of Nietschze's intellectual awakening. The Church may still have some dubious 'moral authority' but it has precious little legal, constitutional power or influence.
ReplyDeleteThat's where FN wanted to provide an alternative.
They aren't even allowed to posit a "what-if"?
ReplyDeleteWhy would you call them "Deep Thinkers" if they didn't?