Nietzsche vs. Jesus Christ
Stanford University
Dallas Willard
March 4, 2002
N's work came out of and in response to a culture that was almost uniformly 'Christian', but incredibly shallow and full of hypocrisy. By anyone's standards, and especially true Christian standards, the culture reflected poorly on Christ.
N rightly found 'Christian' culture revolting.
'God is dead.' God made no difference to culture.
Constructionism -- the world is a construction of the human mind. And the constructions are oppressive.
If there is no knowledge, we construct reality according to our will, therefore, the Will to Power.
'Modernism comes to stand for the rejection of the past as a guide to the present.'
Like the postmodernists he sired, N's criticisms of culture and ideology are often scarily perspicacious.
Objectivity is the path to freedom. Submitting to reality to be able to perform within its constraints (e.g. concert pianist).
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