Religion and Philosophy

Abstract

In the late 19th century , the very foundation of conventional morality and Christianity were put on a test and was challenged by the German philosopher named Friedrich Nietzsche . He imposed his nihilistic principles in a world that was enamored by Christianity at that time Implying that life and the realities of the world is the apt world to be believe in , instead of the ideal and favorable world that is beyond our control . The core principle of Nietzsche was the notion of life-affirmation , which is a deliberate questioning of all religious

br doctrines that hampers life 's energies , yet prevalent in terms of social perspectives . He was considered one of the pioneer proponents of existentialism , and has influenced an eclectic group of notable figures which includes psychologists , poets , social revolutionaries , and other philosophers as well (Babich , 1994

Nietzsche 's Principles : Apt Morality or Delusional Reality

In his aphoristic work entitled The Gay Science , Nietzsche proposed existential ideas which either became famous or notorious , most notably the proclamation that God is dead ' as told in the doctrine of eternal recurrence . In this doctrine , it tells how individuals of various levels of health are prone to react to the notion of an eternal return which the title suggests , one is sporadically reborn and relive one 's life in each pleasurable and painful aspect . Nietzsche 's atheism is shown in his account of God 's murder ' in which the conception of a single ultimate and judgmental authority who is privy to everyone 's hidden and embarrassing secrets . It is used to avert people 's attention to their inherent and innate freedrom , the modern- day existing world and away from escapist , pain-relieving , celestial worlds . The doctine also aims to draw attention away from all worlds besides the one we live in and suggests that the eternal return ' is the only way of emancipation from the present world . Nietzsche believed that this doctrine was the far most difficult perspective for the world to accept It was a pseudo-gauge for judging an individual 's holistic psychological strength and mental capacity (Kaufmann , 1974

Master morality is labelled by Nietzsche as the morality of the adamant and strong-willed . Such morality is blunt and deliberate Obviously , this morality is manifested by capitalists which perceive God as the central figure for their religion , yet their money is their personal god . For these strong-willed individuals , they consider their standard of good ' as noble and powerful , whereas the bad ' is the weak and petty . Which brings us to the notion that the very essence of such morality is nobility per se . The nobility of a person undergoes an ascertaining of values , yet it does not an affirmation and is value-creating . Nietzsche declared that its not a moral phenomena but only the moral interpretation of a phenomena (Nietzsche , 1973

On the other hand , slave morality is the anti-thesis of master morality , which is a direct reaction to oppression . This is best manifested in employee-employer relations . slave morality makes villains out of capitalists . Employee...