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Jesus or Nietzsche [electronic resource] : how should we live our lives? / Raymond Angelo Belliotti.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Belliotti, Raymond Angelo.
- Series:
- Value inquiry book series ; v. 259.
- Value inquiry book series ; v. 259
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christianity--Philosophy.
- Christianity.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (246 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book reconstructs the cornerstones of Jesus’s moral teachings about how to lead a good, even exemplary, human life. It does so in a way that is compatible with the most prominent, competing versions of the historical Jesus. The work also contrast Jesus’ understanding of the best way to lead our lives with that of Friedrich Nietzsche. Both Jesus and Nietzsche were self-consciously moral revolutionaries. Jesus refashioned the imperatives of Jewish law to conform to what he was firmly convinced was the divine will. Nietzsche aspired to transvalue the dominant values of his time —which themselves were influenced greatly by Christianity— in service of what he took to be a higher vision. The interplay of these radical versions of the good human life, seasoned with critical commentary emerging from modern findings in the sciences and humanities, opens possibilities and lines of inquiry that can inform our choices in answering that enduring, paramount question, “How should we live our lives?”
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- INTRODUCTION
- JESUS: THE NATURE OF OUR WORLD AND OUR MISSION IN IT
- NIETZSCHE: THE NATURE OF OUR WORLD AND OUR MISSION IN IT
- FUNDAMENTAL UNDERSTANDINGS OF HUMAN BEINGS: UNCONDITIONAL LOVE AND THE WILL TO POWER
- THE PERFECTIONISM OF JESUS
- THE PERFECTIONISM OF NIETZSCHE
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- VIBS.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 90-420-3659-1
- 94-012-0925-1
- OCLC:
- 843860369
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789401209250 DOI
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